FORT COLLINS - Larimer County Commissioners next week will move closer to an official position on a proposed water supply project, the biggest piece of which is Glade Reservoir northwest of Fort Collins that will draw water from the Cache la Poudre River.

The county board's two-hour work session on the massive Northern Integrated Supply Project begins at 1 p.m. on Aug. 25 in the hearing room of the Larimer County Courthouse office building at 200 W. Oak St. in Fort Collins.

The board will consider comments submitted previously by citizens, county boards and county staff members, then decide how they will draft comments to the Army Corps of Engineers that is now conducting an environmental review of the project.

The Glade Reservoir component of the supply project has generated the most controversy, with opponents saying it would draw too much of the Poudre's flow during peak runoff periods, drying the river that flows through Fort Collins.

The NISP project is being coordinated by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and would be owned by municipalities and water supply districts throughout Larimer and Weld counties. Fort Collins is not among the partners in the project.

The county's review process will result in the submission of a formal statement to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the decision-maker on the project. Interested citizens also can independently submit their comments to the Corps.

The meeting will be televised on Cable 14 in Fort Collins, Cable 16 in Loveland, and Cable 45 in north Larimer County and also will be streamed on the Internet at www.larimer.org/bcc/broadcast.cfm.