Re: “” Feb. 11 news story.
Jon Murray’s article shed light on the disconnect between Denver officials and the Globeville community regarding flood dangers and the $300 million Platte to Park Hill (P2PH) storm water project. The city’s P2PH outreach efforts never allowed for addressing concerns raised about flooding and contamination from the Super Fund outfall site. Instead input was solicited about park design and features.
Globeville floods now. The city knows that the infrastructure is barely able to handle a two-year flood, let alone a 100-year flood. Yet according to Public Works, the “Platte to Park Hill Phase 2” advocated by Councilman Albus Brooks for Globeville’s flood mitigation would not happen until 2022 or 2023, if then. And the $80 million of needed funding is only a figure on paper in the 2018 budget, not guaranteed.
Meanwhile the city’s historic mantra of “Globeville can wait” continues even as it admits to decades-long neglect of infrastructure and basic services. When is it Globeville’s turn to be first in line instead of last — or never?
Nancy Grandys-Jones,ٳٱٴDz
The writer is president of Globeville Civic Partners.
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