Trump Rejects Arkansas Valley Water Pipeline Bill Citing Federal Taxpayer Burden

By Sophia Villalba | Denver7

DENVER — President Trump has vetoed a bill aimed at providing reliable, clean drinking water to rural communities in southeastern Colorado.

It’s another setback for the decades old “Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act” that would have completed a 130-mile pipeline bringing drinking water to 39 Colorado communities on the Eastern Plains.

This is the president’s first veto of his second term in the Oval Office. He rejected the bipartisan bill that passed both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate unanimously, saying the project would cost federal taxpayers too much money.

The Arkansas Valley Conduit was first approved back in 1962, but according to the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, it wasn’t built for decades because of local users unable to repay construction costs.

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