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AURORA — The Aurora City Council has approved a 10-year lease of water rights to Nestle Waters North America.
The proposed water-harvesting plan calls for the world’s largest water-bottling company to use water Aurora owns in the Arkansas River Valley’s Twin Lakes reservoirs to replace water it removes from an aquifer near Nathrop. The council voted 7-4 in late March to allow Nestle to lease 200 acre-feet of water for $800 an acre-foot, with the cost increasing 5 percent every year.
Chaffee County commissioners must now decide wither to allow Nestle to draw 200 acre-feet of water from an aquifer near Nathrop each year and truck it to Denver to be bottled. The water would be sold under the Arrowhead brand.
Jason Blevins, The Denver Post
