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Why Denver Water Is Fighting Environmentalists To Expand a 70-Year-Old Dam
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- When:
- June 11, 2025 · 9:00 AM
- Where:
- City Cast Denver
- Source:
- City Cast Denver
Denverites are paying higher rates for water this year, in part, to fund construction on the expansion of Gross Reservoir in Boulder County. But longtime Denverites will be forgiven for asking: Didn’t dam-building in the West go the way of the dodo decades ago? Producer Paul Karolyi sits down with Denver Water’s new CEO/Manager Alan Salazar to talk about the legal battle his agency has been waging with environmentalists over the expansion of Gross Reservoir in Boulder County and how he’s thinkin