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$760 million flowing into metro water-treatment projects
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Ed Trujillo, project inspector at the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, tests the product at a new $30 million purification plant. The facility can remove contaminants that include, increasingly, ones from pharmaceuticals. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post )
Denver-area authorities are embarking on $760 million worth of massive water-treatment projects, to convert substandard water into drinkable new supplies. Read More...
Running Dry
Author: Lou Kilzer, Jerd Smith and Burt Hubbard
Rocky Mountain News
Much of Douglas county's Well Water, Once through abundant enough for a century, could drop out of reach in 10 to 20 years.
When Keith Lehmann moved to Douglas County in the early 1980s, the last thing he was worried about was water.
He had a well dug into the vast and seemingly inexhaustible Denver Basin, an aquifer that experts said held enough water to fill Lake Erie. Read More (Part 1 of 4 par series)...
