Gross Reservoir Expansion Project
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Request 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to an image of the big city plundering water from the West Slope without regard to consequences are embarrassingly out of date.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...
read moreA statement from the CEO/Manager
Below is a statement from Denver Water CEO/Manager Jim Lochhead regarding the April 11 complaint filed in District Court on the zoned land use exemption: Our commitment to the community has been demonstrated from the beginning when we intentionally and explicitly...
read moreCollaboration works for 21st century Denver Water
Colorado Central Magazine - April 1, 2019 - "Commissioners from Grand County showed up at a noisy Boulder County commissioners’ hearing on a West Slope-to-East Slope transmountain water diversion project – to testify on behalf of the project." Read the full story...
read moreLeaning In To The Challenge Of Climate Change
Water Online - April 2, 2019 - "Under the Colorado River Cooperative Agreement, the flexibility that comes with more storage in Gross also ensures Denver Water can support stream flows in the Fraser River and other high elevation West Slope streams in drier years..."...
read moreWhen east meets west over water resources
Winter Park Times - March 14, 2019 - "The goal of Learning By Doing is to restore or enhance the condition of the river health in Grand County through projects and improved communication between the partners. LBD is not supposed to be effective until permits for...
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