The Castle Pines North Metropolitan District is embarking on a major infrastructure project to secure long-term, renewable water for its 10,000 residents, as well as future residents in the area.
The district’s Strategic Renewable Water Implementation Program is part of an ongoing campaign to wean its customers off nonrenewable well water from the Denver Basin that is drying up.
The first phase, which cost $6 million, was the construction of a pump station completed a year ago. The second phase, which also cost about $6 million, was a 24-inch pipeline to bring water from Hock Hocking Mine in Park County to a Centennial Water and Sanitation District treatment plant, and then to CPNMD’s distribution centers. That was recently completed.
“That is probably the largest infrastructure project we’ve taken on, and we’re very proud of that because it’s a first step of getting our community off well water and onto renewable water,” said Ken Smith, director of communications for the metro district.
Phase four is projected to be a 4½-mile pipeline from a CPNMD distribution center to the Rueter-Hess Reservoir, at which the district has storage rights, as well as to move water back. Smith said the CPNMD board is working with consultant MWH Global to examine if phase four even makes sense at this point, and to look at other renewable water options and establish priorities to ultimately deliver a plan to present to the public.
“The purpose of our Strategic Renewable Water Implementation Program meetings is to give our board and general managers the opportunity to work with a consultant we’ve worked with for years to look at all assets, all water rights and how we could expedite the move off of well water to renewable water,” Smith said.
The next meeting is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Castle Pines North Community Center, 7404 Yorkshire Drive. For more information, go to .
Clayton Woullard: 303-954-2671, cwoullard@denverpost.com or
