A Canadian company, Powertech, is planning to mine uranium just six miles northeast of Fort Collins on 6,880 acres of private land. The company has bought mineral rights and continues to drill test holes. Powertech is proposing an in-situ leach mining operation that will pump chemicals into the groundwater to leach out the uranium, and then pump the groundwater to the surface to chemically extract the uranium from the water.

Northern Colorado is a fast-growing area that faces many challenges and opportunities as it develops. The future transportation systems available to northern Colorado residents will be a key feature that determines how this area develops as well as the environmental and economic health of the landscape and the citizens. The two main north-south transportation corridors that connect northern Colorado to the Denver metropolitan area – I-25 and the Highway 287 – are both currently overused and in need of improvements.