Courtesy Colorado Springs Utilities
Colorado Springs Utilities announced it will join Southwest Power Poolâs Western Energy Imbalance Service Market in April 2022 and will join other western utilities in evaluating membership in SPPâs regional transmission organization.
According to a Utilities-issued news release, SPP Inc. is a regional transmission organization: a not-for-profit corporation mandated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure reliable supplies of power, adequate transmission infrastructure and competitive wholesale electricity prices on behalf of its members. SPP manages the electric grid across 17 central and western U.S. states and provides energy services on a contract basis to customers in both the Eastern and Western Interconnections. The companyâs headquarters are in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ithaka plans to build new transitional housing at 301 S. Union Blvd., a nine-acre tract for which City Council approved rezoning from public facility to office complex on May 11. Ithaka s buildings will occupy only a portion of the property, with retail, office and townhomes planned for the site.
Pam Zubeck
Make our roads a priority
Make no mistake, the Democratic-led state transportation and green initiative bill is a flurry of fees and expenses that directly attack your pocketbook. Our state has an approximately $35 billion budget with an additional $6 billion coming from the Washington, D.C., printing press. The fact is, our state already has money for roads, but the Democratic majority refuses to use it for infrastructure. The question remains, how many billions of dollars can our state compile before the Democrats will stop taking more of your money?
For our state to bring in billions of dollars, continue to starve our roads, then take more money out of your pocket with the promise to use it for infrastructure, is pure disrespect of your hard-earned money. Let’s actually make our roads a priority and use the billions of dollars we have. There is no need for us to take one more dime from you, especially in a manner that violates TABOR and Proposition 117 fundamentals.
Construction is ongoing at the wastewater treatment plant for the Cherokee Metropolitan District. The district, which serves Cimarron Hills and Schriever Air Force Base, had to prioritize between updating its 17-mile water main built in the 1960s and a new $43 wastewater treatment plant to meet new state regulations, said Amy Lathen, general manager of the district. The pipeline project is on hold.(Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
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Bridgette Swaney and her daughter, Addison, 4, use the last of their bottled water to make mint tea at their Widefield home in 2016. High levels of perfluorinated compounds, believed to be from a firefighting foam used at Peterson Air Force Base, were found in the water systems of Security, Widefield and Fountain, forcing residents to drink bottled water.
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