Colorado Water
Denver Water is dumping over 3 million gallons of treated water into a storm sewer every week, according to the Rocky Mountain News [July 23, 2004, "Utility dumping water"]. Oops. From the article, "At the end of a dirt road, in an overgrown field, a fire hydrant at 28600 E. 114th Ave. gushes 300 gallons of Denver water every minute, a News 4 investigation has found...News 4 learned the water dumping has gone on nonstop for nearly a decade. The Water Department says it's unavoidable...Denver Water says the problem is a Catch-22 that began around the time DIA opened in 1995. The airport's fuel depot was located several miles north of the terminal. Denver Water says it needed to run two 30-inch water mains past the fuel depot for fire suppression in the event of a fuel fire. At the same time, there are only a handful of users tapping into those lines. When the water doesn't circulate, chlorine content drops and the water can quickly become "stale" and fall below state drinking water standards. Consequently, Denver Water must force the water to circulate by flushing it out of the system 24 hours a day, seven days a week"
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