A years-long legal battle over the expansion of one of the reservoirs holding Denver's water supply entered a new chapter this week when environmental groups asked a judge to invalidate the federal permits underlying the $464 million project.
failed to properly consider the massive construction project's impacts on the environment in Boulder County when they approved the expansion of Gross Reservoir. They also didn't adequately weigh the risk of taking more water from the Colorado River system, the filing says.
An appeals court judge last year reversed the dismissal and said the groups could challenge the federal permitting, resulting in Tuesday's filing. The participating groups are Save the Colorado, the Environmental Group, WildEarth Guardians, Living Rivers, Waterkeeper Alliance and the Sierra Club.
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