Northern Water sets allocation at 70% for the season

BERTHOUD — The board of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District this morning set a water allocation for the 2022 growing season at 70%.

The allocation, which is the amount of water that the district will make available to owners of shares of the Colorado-Big Thompson project, means that of the 310,000 acre feet available at 100%, 217,000 acre feet will be made available to shareholders. An acre foot of water — essentially the amount of water that would cover an acre of land one-foot deep — is about 325,851 gallons of water.

The board chose what has become the typical allocation.…