The City Ditch, widely credited with Denver s early success as a Western American city, could soon be enclosed as the City of Englewood plans for a new piping project intended to modernize its drinking water infrastructure.
Denver Water said customers hadn’t used this little water in the month of June in decades. And cities across the metro are saving thousands of dollars on watering.
Colorado cities struggle amid pandemic pinch to keep up with road work, maintenance and other fixes
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Posted at 10:02 AM, Jan 31, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-31 12:02:38-05
Littleton was poised to get to work on a $10 million project to relieve congestion at one of its most troublesome intersections. Then the pandemic hit â upending government budgets across the state.
Now officials in the south metro Denver city are scrounging to find about $2 million to fulfill the local contribution required for a federal grant on the project, which would build a reliever road to route some traffic away from the Santa Fe Drive and West Mineral Avenue intersection. Money is tighter for some other projects, too.