Comments about ‘Feds: Not enough Green River water for pipeline’

This comment is the beginning of the end for people that enjoy the outdoors. People should scale down there lifestyles in America before we continue to figure out how to sustain our irresponsible waste.

("I think the important thing from the public's standpoint is that there's a major surplus of water in the system, above the needs of endangered species, boating and all those things," Million said Wednesday. this is bad news for Utah and Wyoming...

"fantastical thinking". Trying to divert that much water would be a disaster for the Green River, whether it's Colorado's share or not. There would be anywhere near that much water in the system, long before 2040, long before.

good comment Shirm. Why is controlling growth never part of the long range plan. This issue is bigger than the colorado front range... it's something the Wasatch Front needs to start addressing before we continue with rediculous proposals like piping the Bear River.

There is no major surplus in the system. Maybe if you look at just Wyoming, then yes, there might be some extra water. The whole point of a river, however, is that it flows downhill. None of the folks downhill are reporting 'major surplus'. So, if they take water out at the top, what will happen at the bottom... or middle as is the case with Utah. It is a big old joke. Someone is trying to game the system to make a quick dollar at the expense of all the downstream users and local taxpayers.

Million and his engineers can get his numbers to day what ever suits their needs. Given current growth in the west, that fact that he says this system has a surplus of water is preposterous. At some point in time we are going to have to make rational decisions on growth in the west. We are running and in some areas, have run dry of resources. During good water years there may be enough water to draw from this system without have an impact on the entire watershed, but these days it is rare we have good water years. Last I recall, we just finished up with 10 years of very poor precipitation. There simply is no way you can remove 250,000 acre feet of water from this system without have long term effects that impact communities and all related resources that rely on this river and it's water for its health.