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The South Platte River and Cherry Creek deteriorate rapidly as they meander through the Denver area, picking up arsenic, ammonia and fecal contaminants at levels exceeding health standards by up to 50 times, the latest state and city data show. Denver Environmental Health officials have posted warnings at Confluence Park. Yet residents, including parents with kids, splash and swim anyway to escape the heat, as many did in Saturday’s 102-degree temperature. “It’s a concern,” said Steve Gu...
The Metro Mayors Caucus, a coalition of mayors in 39 cities and towns in the Denver metro region, has taken a position of opposition to Senate Bill 23-213, the sweeping land use bill pushed by Gov...
As Denver Water neared its 100th anniversary over a decade ago, it faced a challenging situation. Its buildings were aging and inefficient and did not do a great job of conserving water. Today, the situation looks much better. The organization’s self-examination led to a $2.04 million overhaul of its 34.6-acre site in downtown Denver. When the operations complex redevelopment project began, the average building age was 55 years, and the oldest building had been in service for 130 years. The re...
Who produces the odors that periodically waft through Denver? · Driven by the more than 1,000 complaints from Denver residents since 2016, city environmental health inspectors pinpointed the following sites as frequent emitters of foul fumes. Marijuana industry facilities, more than 320 around Denver, collectively drawing roughly 10% of all odor complaints. These emit skunky, floral smells, even though 314 have had odor control plans approved. Inspections ceased during the pandemic but are scheduled to resume later this year. ...
Climate change and development pressures led Denver to launch Colorado’s first One Water Plan ; In September of 2021 the City and County of Denver published the Denver One Water Plan, the first and only official One Water plan in Colorado. It lays out Denver’s new approach to water management, born of the recognition that development pressures and climate change are stressing the city’s water resources and that for a sustainable future, all the water managers and planners need to work toge...
Six years after Denver Water detected elevated lead in tap water at some homes, state health officials have ordered the injection of a chemical into water supplies to slow lead-pipe corrosion — but utility officials are resisting. The chemical, orthophosphate, would harm humans and hurt the South Platte River basin, worsening algae blooms and increasing the cost of cleaning wastewater, Denver Water contends. Utility officials propose solving the problem with a different chemical to lower the acidity of drinking water, combined with accelerate ...
Soon, the city's health department will be testing Denver’s wastewater for fentanyl and other substances to better understand who is using drugs and where to help with prevention....
But as a vast swath of that infrastructure closes in on its 100th birthday, anywhere from 500 to 700 of Denver Wastewater’s 150,637 customers every year become woefully aware of the...
According to the Denver Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, the wastewater inside stays a mild 55 to 75 degrees year-round, no matter the weather outside. The consistent temperature can...