I haven’t been a fan of the city’s investment in Chimney Hollow Reservoir. Some of my doubt turns on the consistent long-term viability and reliability of the Colorado River. Collecting snowmelt is fine, so long as snow falls sufficiently. And the river interstate water compacts have not yet to my knowledge agreed on a revised allocation scenario. For 100 years these “gentleman’s agreements” have seemed to work. Mother Nature now appears to have “other plans.”

I worry over commitment of nearly $50 million to what may someday become “air rights,” just as I worried at investment of nearly $50 million in a new shopping mall. To me these do not necessarily speak well of our government’s capital allocation decisions.

Besides climate change is another problem: a uranium situation. What we hear

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