Dam estimate almost doubles to $150M as pols challenge runaway water projects
State officials grilled Water Development Office Director Jason Mead this week over ballooning costs and uncertainties dogging three dam projects after he told them one project on the Colorado border would cost $150 million, nearly double the original estimate of $80 million. … The proposed reservoir would release stored water into the Little Snake River, which flows back and forth across the Colorado border before leaving Wyoming for good, flowing into the Yampa, Green and Colorado rivers. The dam and reservoir would allow Wyoming to use more water from the Colorado River Basin.
Other dam and reservoir news:
- Nature Scientific Reports: A forensic engineering framework for flood management of cascade reservoir systems
- Manteca Bulletin (Calif.): Opinion: Biggest illusion in California is what water use and development does and doesn’t do
