CH2M Hill and the City of Colorado Springs were awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Public/Private Partnerships Award for their work with Mayor Lionel Rivera and Colorado Springs Utilities. The award was given during yesterday’s meeting of the National Conference of Mayors in Las Vegas. The entities worked together on the Fountain Creek Recovery Project, an [...]
Continue reading …In this month’s Reed Construction Data report about the Rocky Mountain region, comes news that Colorado Springs Utilities is ready to appeal a November water line ruling of Pueblo District Court Judge Dennis Maes to the Colorado Court of Appeals. CSU plans to build a $1 billion pipeline to carry water from Pueblo Reservoir up [...]
Continue reading …An independent policy group has given Colorado Springs high marks for its strides in water conservation. Springs’ single-family residential per capita water use decreased 32 percent since 2000, according to a report released this week from Western Resource Advocates. Per Capita Water Use Gallons per person per day in Colorado Springs 2000 2005 2006 [...]
Continue reading …Xcel Energy Inc. will delay the construction of a Colorado state-of-the-art power plant that uses environmentally-friendly coal converted to gas technology to generate power. Xcel is the state’s largest utility provider, delivering electricity and natural gas to more than two-thirds of Colorado’s residents. Construction of a new “integrated gasification combined cycle,” power plant was anticipated [...]
Continue reading …Energy Outreach Colorado plans to distribute $9.36 million statewide through its 2007-08 programs to help households afford home energy. The money which Energy Outreach raises through thousands of donations from individuals, foundations, corporations and government sources, includes: $5.4 million for energy assistance payments contributed to a statewide network of 100 assistance agencies that operate year [...]
Continue reading …Average monthly residential utility bills based on second quarter 2007 data Loveland $112.76 Colorado Springs $116.00 Pueblo $129.61 Gunnison $135.29 Glenwood Springs $151.64 Grand Junction $155.98 Denver $157.18 Greeley $163.10 Colorado Springs Utilities is proposing rate increases for wastewater disposal and natural gas use during 2008. No change is proposed for electricity and water rates. [...]
Continue reading …The water shortage hit Colorado Springs like a sucker punch, except in this case it was telegraphed two years in advance. Colorado had already endured consecutive years of drought, but spring came and the water flowed. By the time the Colorado Springs City Council invoked mandatory conservation measures, water supplies were seriously low, and consumers [...]
Continue reading …The slide in city sales and use tax revenue has stopped, at least for now. The city’s sales and use tax for August increased 2.27 percent over the prior year period. Sales tax actually dropped by .81 percent, but use taxes increased by just over 40 percent. An example of a use tax would be [...]
Continue reading …Aloha…A Post- Vacation Perspective Just when you thought Colorado Springs was the only locality faced with environmental challenges (e.g., the Preble mouse), consider Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The “Big Island” relies heavily on Highway 19 (which loops the entire island). Unfortunately, some parts of the highway narrow to two slow lanes near the coffee plantations. In an [...]
Continue reading …Congratulations this week to the City of Fountain for its 2002 designations as one of the country’s top ten “All American Cities.” Mayor Ken Barela and City Manager, Greg Nyhoff, along with the Fountain City Council definitely get credit for raising the awareness, the commitment and the money (the national competition requires that a city [...]
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