Go With The Flow

The development of Snowmass's Base Village, a multimillion-dollar development near Aspen, CO by Intrawest, is the 900-pound gorilla of the mountain resort industry. But gorilla thirst apparently bothers U.S. Army surveyors who have raised issues of water supply and stream depletion. On the other hand, a smart water lawyer in Denver once told me: "Water usually runs downhill, except when it flows uphill toward money."