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Product description:
The Cache La Poudre river is in trouble and needs your help! Three large new
dams have been proposed to impound this last remaining unallocated water in the
poudre river. The most potentially damaging of these is the proposed Glade Reservoir,
part of the Northern Integrated Supply Project, or NISP. Proceeds from shirt sales
benefit the SaveThePoudre Coalition and will help to communicate and educate the
public, and help to hire technical experts and the best river-loving lawyers to
help us protect, and restore, the Poudre River.
Impacts: In addition to the direct impacts to the river and its immediate ecosystem,
the NISP project would have profound impacts on drinking water and waste water
treatment, flood control, recreation, aesthetics and greenhouse gas emissions.
In a nutshell, the NISP project would:
(1) introduce elevated amounts of total organic carbon into our drinking water systems resulting in far more costly water treatment, and potentially dangerous residual carcinogens; (2) because of a decommissioned missile silo and Superfund site located in Glade Reservoir's pumping area, there is the very real possibility that drinking water would be contaminated by the highly carcinogenic chemical known as TCE; (3) effluent from wastewater treatment facilities would no longer be guaranteed the meager dilution necessary to protect aquatic life and reduce nuisance odor problems, again elevating ratepayer costs; (4) as with wastewater, reduced flows would exacerbate downstream problems with selenium, salinity and other water quality issues; (5) reduced flows would cause vegetation to migrate into the existing river channel such that when the inevitable floods do occur, property damage would be much greater; (6) reduced flows would elevate summer water temperatures putting ever more stress on the already vulnerable cold-water fishery and further violate existing water quality standards; (7) the season for rafting and tubing would be severely reduced; (8) and enormous pumps to fill Glade Reservoir would consume huge amounts of energy, leading to greenhouse gas emissions.
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