1. What is the Central Colorado Project?
Our Nation’s growing Western Region has an escalating renewable energy and water shortage crisis.
The innovative Central Colorado Project (CCP) can soon solve a significant portion of this seemingly intractable crisis. CCP’s unique concept employs a single high altitude regulating reservoir to multiply the productivity of renewable energy and water resources and systems throughout the Southwestern Region’s major river basins on both sides of the Continental Divide. CCP’s regional high storage concept for enhanced energy and water productivity has significant worldwide potential for human and environmental needs
2. Where will the Union Park Reservoir be located?
Union Park Reservoir will to be located off-river near the Continental Divide in Gunnison National Forest,
3. Who will own the Union Park Reservoir?
Participating energy and water providers can cooperatively own, finance, and operate CCP with a Central Colorado Project Authority (CCPA), for mutual benefits of local and regional stakeholders. Farm and environmental associations, as well as down river states, may be represented on CCPA’s Board and operational management team. CCP’s complex energy/water storage and distribution decisions can be optimized with computers and real time flood, normal, and drought flow data from ground and satellite reporting stations.
4. How does this benefit the western region of the United States?
There are several benefits of this project, here are a few of them:
a. Access to 1.3 million acre feet of water.
b. Energy production to augment other local energy production measures.
c. Flood and public safety benefits.