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Police suspend investigation into 100,000 gallons of water missing from Erie spigot

Police are unsure whether the water was stolen or merely spilled

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The Erie Police Department has suspended its investigation into a report that 100,000 gallons of water went missing from an Erie home.

Since the spigot was capped off, no water has spilled, Deputy Chief Lee Mathis said.

The lost water initially was reported as a theft, but Mathis recently said police do not know whether it was taken without permission or somehow spilled. He said surveillance cameras show no activity at the spigot in the 200 block of Briggs Street in Weld County.

A hundred thousand gallons would equate to about 2,000 bathtubs full of water, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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