Tag: Denver Water
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Denver Water’s Jim Lochhead to step down
Jim Lochhead, Denver Water’s CEO and manager, announced Thursday he plans to step down from the utility once the board of water commissioners finds a successor. Lochhead, a legend in the Colorado water community, has led the utility since 2010. The water utility’s board plans to conduct a national search for his replacement. “It is with deep,…
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Water district plans for new filtration system to eliminate ‘forever’ chemicals, follow EPA advisory
The South Adams County Water and Sanitation District plans to build a new filtration system to catch “forever chemicals” that may be undetectable, even as the district noted that the Environmental Protection Agency has “moved the goalposts.” The district said it hired a leading environmental and construction services firm, Brown and Caldwell, to design a new 18…
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Denver residents, others face increase in water bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver water users face a bigger bill in 2023. An Oct. 12 decision by Denver’s Board of Water Commissioners means the average Denver single-family residential water customer will pay $591 – up $35.51 per year or $2.96 per month. Suburban customers living outside of the city…
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Gross Reservoir will be closed for several weeks due to fatal crash
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gross Reservoir will be closed for several weeks as authorities continue to investigate a fatal crash. Emergency responders were sent to the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project site early Saturday morning for a report of a crash near the Gross Reservoir Dam. A spokesman with the…
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Denver plans to create one consolidated bill for city-operated utilities, audit reveals
Denver will create one consolidated utility bill for its residents, including composting, stormwater and possibly trash and sewer, according to an audit released Monday on the city’s services with Denver Water. The consolidated bill will include all city-operated utilities, and water bills would still be through Denver Water, the audit revealed. Citing the city’s plans,…
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Large water main break reported in northwest Denver, cars nearly submerged
UPDATE 8:15 a.m. Forty seven homes are still without water due to the water main break in the Berkeley neighborhood Sunday morning, officials said. Repairs to the line should take approximately 36 hours. Denver Water sent crews to a large water main break in the Berkeley neighborhood near 45th Avenue and Perry Street Sunday morning. Cars…
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Colorado approves airborne, high-tech measuring system for snow water
Colorado has approved a $1.9 million snow-measuring initiative based on NASA technology that will help communities across the state better measure and forecast how much water each winter’s mountain snowpack is likely to generate, using planes equipped with sophisticated measuring devices. The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) has been testing the accuracy of the flight-based…
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Denver water rates to increase in 2022
Water rates in Denver will slightly increase next year in an effort to cover the cost of upgrades, projects, maintenance and repairs, according to Denver Water. The Denver Board of Water Commissioners adopted the rate change on Wednesday. It will range between 47 cents to $1.34 per month. Officials said the change of rate will…
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Is a hacker targeting your drinking water?
As the coronavirus pandemic stretches past a year, the world has become accustomed to facing problems we rarely, if ever, anticipated. These new challenges extend beyond logistical work-from-home issues to graver concerns: For example, how do we keep our water systems safe from hackers? In Florida, a water treatment plant ran into that very issue…
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NWS: Storm brought snowfall to normal levels, good news for water supplies
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As Colorado battles statewide drought conditions, last weekend’s massive snowstorm brought a welcome boost to snowfall levels and water supplies. The storm dropped 19.7 inches of snow on Denver and 27.1 inches at the airport,…