Frisco – A tractor-trailer rolled over on Loveland Pass early Friday, closing U.S. 6 and turning the Snake River orange after a concrete dye spilled into the waterway that flows into a reservoir that supplies water to Denver.
Denver Water officials closed a tunnel under the Continental Divide as a precaution to keep the reservoir’s water from its treatment plants after learning the spill was not car-wash soap as originally reported, said Denver Water spokeswoman Trina McGuire-Collier.
Denver Water provides water to some 1.5 million customers and the closure was not expected to affect the water supply.
The 800-gallon spill was contained shortly before noon, but officials could not immediately explain the discrepancy between original and later reports about the spill.
The 700 billion-gallon reservoir, the largest of 10 major reservoirs in Denver Water’s system, was expected to be reopened by Monday, McGuire-Collier said.
