Group sues Army Corps over NISP permit

FORT COLLINS – A group that has been fighting a large proposed Northern Colorado water project for years has sued the Army Corps of Engineers over its issuance of a permit for the project last year.

The group Save the Poudre filed suit in U.S. District Court for Colorado on Thursday in what its director, Gary Wockner, called “the 20th year of bungled and massively delayed permitting” for the Northern Integrated Supply Project, which he said “was proposed to cost $143.9 million in 2005 permitting documents but was recently revealed to cost $2.25 billion in a 2023 Colorado Open Records…