Thornton a major player in Northern Colorado water

Growing demands for local residential developments and the continuing needs of agriculture aren’t the only drivers of demand for the scarce liquid in Northern Colorado.

While opponents of the proposed Northern Integrated Supply Project worry about how much water it would draw from the Cache la Poudre River, another entity wants to drain water from that channel as well:

The city of Thornton.

Sometime in the next decade, the Denver suburb plans to build a 56-mile-long pipeline to funnel water from the Poudre south to Thornton — at a currently projected cost of $400 million…