Denver Water is investing millions of dollars in developing innovative ways to meet its most important responsibility — ensuring customers always have the quantity and quality of water they need. To do so, Denver Water has a diverse plan to meet those future needs: conserve, recycle and develop.
And it’s working. Denver Water customers are using 20 percent less water than they were before the 2002 drought — and there are 10 percent more of them. Denver Water’s recycled water distribution system is freeing up enough drinking water to serve roughly 15,000 households; once it’s complete, the system will free up enough drinking water to serve almost 45,000 homes.
And Denver Water’s Moffat Collection System Project, one of the major elements of our supply plan, will help resolve three major supply challenges: a future water shortfall, the risk of running out of water in a future drought and a serious imbalance in Denver Water’s collection system.
The Project
If approved, the Moffat Collection System Project would produce 18,000 acre-feet of new supply by expanding an existing reservoir rather than building a new one. The current dam height would increase from 340 feet to approximately 465 feet, nearly tripling the reservoir’s capacity.
Enlarging Gross Reservoir will deliver the most benefits at the least cost and with similar environmental impacts compared with the other practicable alternatives.
Questions?
Denver Water is interested in your comments and will answer what questions it can at this time. Send questions to publicinformation@denverwater.org.