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Growing small towns along Colorado's Front Range plan for less water | Cronkite News


Arizona PBS
By Jodi Peterson/KUNC
June 28, 2021
Severance, Colorado, a former farm and ranch town about an hour’s drive north of Denver, is approaching a population of 8,000. Lower housing costs spur many of the newcomers. (Photo by Jodi Petersen/KUNC)
SEVERANCE, Colorado – Birdsong fills the air on a sunny May morning along Severance’s cottonwood-lined main street – but it’s soon drowned out by the roar of a backhoe.
The former farm town is replacing crumbling old water lines that serve a rapidly growing population. Severance, which is about an hour’s drive north of Denver, has seen its population double in the past five years, as home buyers thwarted by soaring prices in larger Front Range cities look for more affordable options. ....

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