The Colorado Springs Utilities' (CS...

The Colorado Springs Utilities' (CSU) Water Resources Department construct itself caught between a defence and a hard place in 1992; it had to select between meeting the requests of its citizens or the mandates of federal regulations.

The June 29 1993 deadline for the newly mandated Surface Water Treatment dominion (SWTR) -- requiring all drinking water from surface water sources to be filtered as part of the water treatment proces -- was quickly approaching.

still the department's proposal to build a strange treatment plant to serve the southwest region of the city, approximately 5 percent of its city-wide customers, met heavy opposition according to the very people it would labor for Area residents did not want the facility in their scenic mountain neighborhood. While the treatment plant proposal was denied, the federal requirements were still in place, with equal reason a second alternative was propos

Introduced in March 1993 the Southwest Water exhibit a ...