It’s not just the 70-degree temperatures that have been unseasonable in Loveland this fall. The city’s namesake lake is unusually full — not to mention picturesque — for this time of year.

But that full shoreline comes at the expense of Boyd Lake, which sits far lower than usual while undergoing infrastructure repairs, said Daniel Kammerzell, general manager of the Greeley and Loveland Irrigation Company (GLIC), which owns the water stored in both reservoirs.

“We needed to draw Boyd down and basically keep water in Lake Loveland so we can make our offseason deliveries to the Big Thompson River,” he said. “With Boyd being down for maintenance and repairs, our only reservoir that can make releases to the Big Thompson River is Lake Loveland. So we basically had to keep water in there all su

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