Northern Water manages numerous water infrastructure projects, including reservoirs, pipelines and tunnels, dams, hydroelectric plants, and feeder canals.

For example, the Alva B. Adams Tunnel brings water from the Upper Colorado River basin across the mountains to the South Platte River watershed in northern Colorado.

The proposed Glade Reservoir will take and store water from the Cache la Poudre River, and the proposed Galeton Reservoir will pull water from the South Platte River.

The reservoir, the major component of the Windy Gap Firming Project, a subdivision of Northern Water, will help store water otherwise lost in wet years due to the insufficient capacity of the Windy Gap Reservoir and other reservoirs on Colorado's Western Slope.

The $690 million project is the first major dam to be built in Colorado in twenty years.

[6][7] The Municipal Subdistrict, a subordinate organization of Northern Water, was formed on July 6, 1970.

The Windy Gap Project, as it came to be called, provided for the construction of a diversion dam near Granby in Grand County.