Lost Fort Collins blog

See the scar going over that hill? (You may need to click to see it.) That’s from a buried line put in by the phone company. Circa 1950.

2 Responses

1. on June 1, 2009 at 10:38 pm Cookie Cloninger

   Keep up the fight. It is so worth preserving this pristine bit of Colorado.

   I lament the loss of the old school house on the corner of College and Harmony – now the location of Ultimate Electronics (which is empty – due to a move east on Harmony). The old barn on Horsetooth and Shields – Cunningham Corner.

   There are just too few people left who value preserving the rich history in this area. Please keep fighting and don’t give up.!!

   
   
2. on June 2, 2009 at 9:39 pm Robert Slate

   Rose,
   I’ve been out of the touch with what had been happening the last year or so and feel so sorry about your continueing situation.

   While I am not an “affected land owner” I was affected by the pipeline going through next to our property, as was and still our our nieghbors. See my photos at: rslate.com/pipeline

   As you recall, after assurances that they would not use our streets they moved over 1000 heavy trucks over it, severly damaging the roadbed. When they were done, they did not even clean up the mud and gravel left behind on the streets.

   Today our road is now cracked with chunks breaking out of it.

   For me, the green belt that I spent 20 years building behind our house is still a shamble. This fall I’ll have to hire someone to replace the topsoil they allowed to be STOLEN (or that Greeley stole and then sold), and replant the grass back there.

   As I understand it, they don’t even need the pipeline now nor will they in some near future. It is only being installed now for to gaurantee water for FUTURE expansion of the City of Greeley.

   I suspect that the reason the NEED to run it through your property like they want has more to do with a land grab than anything else. As I recall, the easment is 200 feet wide even though the pipe is only 5 feet in diameter and a 30 foot easement should be practical.

   Maybe insurance, in the event of a break, requires that wide of an easement.

   Regardless though, I know how you feel. After spending 20 years as a caretaker of our “back 13″ acres, including the wetlands, and then have them come through like they did, I felt raped. And the City of Fort Collins and Larimer County were of no help.

   Robert Slate