DENVER—Denver’s water utility has chosen a longtime water attorney to be its next manager, replacing Chips Barry, who is retiring after 19 years.
The Denver Board of Water Commissioners said Monday Jim Lochhead will take over in June.
Lochhead has represented the state of Colorado and a coalition of major water utilities and districts, including Denver’s, on interstate issues arising from the Colorado River.
He has also served as Colorado’s commissioner for the Upper Colorado River Commission and as vice chairman of the commission.
Denver Water has 1.3 million customers in Denver and surrounding suburbs. It collects and distributes 234,000 acre-feet of water a year, or about 76 billion gallons, accounting for about a third of the treated water in Colorado.
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