Gross Reservoir Expansion Project
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Denver Water hires contractor for Gross Reservoir Expansion Project
HydroWorld.com – July 11, 2019 – “This is a major milestone in our 16-year effort to expand Gross Reservoir, as its original designers intended decades ago, to ensure a more reliable water supply in a future marked by greater uncertainty in weather patterns,” said...
read moreControversy over Denver Water’s Gross Reservoir expansion offers a glimpse into water woes in the West
Colorado Sun – July 10, 2019 – "Denver Water has a long history of securing water before there’s a crisis,” said Patty Limerick, director of the CU Boulder’s Center for the American West and former Colorado Historian. “The Gross Reservoir expansion is a perfect...
read moreDaily Camera: Gross Reservoir expansion makes sense
June 22, 2019 - "But a dispassionate consideration of the project leads to the conclusion that Denver Water’s plan to expand Gross Reservoir is a reasonable and responsible measure, provided the utility proceeds with the utmost sensitivity to the residents who would...
read moreRequest for proposals: macroinvertebrate monitoring and sediment sampling
June 25, 2019 - Learning By Doing (LBD) is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to conduct macroinvertebrate and sediment sampling and reporting for targeted streams in the upper Colorado River basin. LBD has released two Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the...
read moreRequest for proposals: fish passage design services
April 30, 2019 - Learning By Doing is soliciting proposals from qualified firms for design services to improve fish passage at an existing rock weir diversion structure and to install a new fish screen on the adjacent diversion ditch. The project is located on the...
read moreCarroll: A drought will come again
Denver Post – "Those still wedded to an image of the big city plundering water from the West Slope without regard to consequences are embarrassingly out of date. And after more than three decades of talking about an expansion of Gross reservoir, it’s finally time to...
read moreProject related activities
April 18, 2019 – Denver Water will have contractor crews at the intersection of State Highway 72 and Gross Dam Road on Friday, April 19 performing geotechnical investigation activities. This work is necessary for the design of safety related roadway improvements for...
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