A billion-dollar project to build a pipeline snakes its way east from near Pueblo toward Lamar. It’s the Arkansas Valley Conduit.
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Tens of thousands of people in Southern Colorado await the arrival of clean drinking water to their communities. They’ve been waiting for decades. The reality of that finally happening is actually getting closer, as a billion-dollar project to build a pipeline snakes its way east from near Pueblo toward Lamar. It’s the Arkansas Valley Conduit.
The conduit is the final piece of the federal Fryingpan-Arkansas Project that brings water from the Western Slope over the Continental Divide to southeastern Colorado. The so-called Fry-Ark was first signed into law in 1962 and includes infrastructure like tunnels, Lake Pueblo and the Arkansas River itself, to move and store water for many different uses.
