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Brighton athletic fields get astroturfed Work replacing sports complex grass kicked off Jan. 17 BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Installing new turf for the city of Brighton sports complexes, approved by Brighton City Council Dec. 21, is underway, according to a press release. “The Brighton Youth Baseball & Softball Association is extremely happy to see the City of Brighton investing in Astroturf on the eightgame fields in Brighton! In addition to saving millions of gallons of water every year,” said Cory Moul, the executive director of the Brighton Youth Baseball and Softball Association, the Brighton Youth Association Football League, the Rocky Mountain Junior Baseball League and recreation softball executive director for the Indian Peaks Girls Softball Association. The conversion project is estimated to cost $4.3 million and is scheduled to start construction as early as Jan. 17 by Rocky Mountain Turf Solutions, according to officials. Fields one and two at the Brighton Sports Complex will be the first for demolition. The other two fields will remain open for programming. Once the two are completed then demolition will start at Pawlowski Fields for the turf conversation. The projected timeline for the completion of both complexes is about 48 weeks. According to officials, the conversion to turf would save more than 10 SEE FIELDS, P4
Soldiers from Colorado Army National Guard Company B, First Battalion start searching for their personal items after getting off PHOTO BY BELEN WARD their bus home in Fort Lupton Jan. 21. See more photos page 3.
Council OKs ‘best route’ for wastewater work BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Fort Lupton City Council thinks U.S. Highway 85 is the best route to transport materials once the mandatory wastewater treatment improvements begin. The vote was unanimous during a business meeting Jan. 18. Roy Vestal, public works director, said U.S.85 was “the most beneficial and the least impactful” after a cost analysis. “We will save $5 million” by using US 85 “instead of going out to (Weld County) Road 23, Vestal said. “The next step is to walk the route.” The Colorado Department of
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Health and Environment is requiring cities, including Fort Lupton, to decrease the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen in its wastewater plants. In other business, the council also unanimously approved a $500 increase in residential tap fees and sewer tap fees. Staff notes said the increase was necessary because of an anticipated need to expand water and sewer plants over the next 20 years. The city pegged that work at $76 million, according to staff notes. The new residential water tap fee is $8,000 per tap. Sewer fees increased to $10,000. “We are running barely above the ranks of our neighbors,” Vestal told
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