Colorado Water
A group of south metro water districts are working together and have come up with a plan that includes at least one reservoir for future storage in Douglas and Arapahoe counties, according to today's Rocky Mountain News [December 12, 2003, "Reservoir in $2.5 billion plan"]. From the article, "The new favored approach calls for collecting an average of 19,000 acre-feet of excess runoff, building a treatment plant and storing it in reservoirs belonging to the districts, said study manager Pat Mulhern. The plan also would involve building pipelines to connect communities to the surface water and the eventual creation of a water authority with some funding or taxing powers. To pay for the system, tap fees charged for new homes would increase an average of almost $13,000, but would vary widely by district, depending on their financial structures. Denver, which has had tenuous relations with Western Slope water interests, preferred diverting the smaller amount of water, he said. Denver Water and the Colorado River Water Conservation District, on the Western Slope, have yet to OK the plan. Negotiations are expected to start next year. The best location for a new reservoir would be in western Douglas County, close to Denver's Foothills treatment plant, Mulhern said. The advantages of that site are that gravity could help move the water to lower Douglas County, and proximity to the Denver plant would mean fewer infrastructure costs." Here's the coverage from the Denver Post [December 12, 2003, "South Metro water providers tout plan"].
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