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Colorado Springs City crews have cleared an 18-acre property near Pikes Peak Avenue and south Academy Boulevard of invasive trees so they can put in new wetlands to help slow down stormwater and improve its quality. The area was densely overgrown with invasive tree species before the work and collected large amounts of trash, as depicted in this photo taken before the work was done. Photo Courtesy of City of Colorado Springs
Photo Courtesy of City of Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs could spend $45 million over 15 years to fulfill the requirements of a proposed consent decree to end a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other groups over the city s poor stormwater management.
The lawsuit filed in 2016 claimed the city s stormwater control efforts were underfunded and understaffed starting in 2009 and for years afterward. The suit also said the city s failure to control stormwater degraded, eroded and widened Fountain Creek and its tributaries.
City officials stepped up stormwater control efforts in recent years after voters approved a stormwater fee in 2017.
But for years, poor stormwater control sent silt washing down Fountain Creek to the Arkansas River where it filled in the channels of both waterways and caused flooding in communities downstream, including Pueblo and La Junta, said Jay Winner, general manager of the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District.
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Snow this evening will give way to lingering snow showers late. Low 28F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 90%. About one inch of snow expected..
Tonight
Snow this evening will give way to lingering snow showers late. Low 28F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 90%. About one inch of snow expected. Updated: April 15, 2021 @ 6:03 pm
Colorado Springs residents and commercial property owners could see their stormwater fees increase in July to help cover costs stemming from a lawsuit the Environmental Protection Agency and others brought