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have that to fall back upon.” e district was also one of the rst in Colorado to use a process to assist with groundwater replenishment by recharging the groundwater, called Aquifer Storage and Recovery - ASR.

According to Klein, who is also a water intern, the district has injected 14,855 acre feet of water back into the aquifers since 1990 using the ASR and with the historic rainfall the community has seen this year, the district has injectedover 385 acre feet of water.

Water rights

Established in 1962, the State Wa- and manner of death are yet to be determined. e Sheri ’s O ce said in a statement that a Critical Incident Response Team will conduct a full investigation. Douglas County participates in the team with with Lincoln and Elbert counties. e team also said it would receive assistance of the Castle Rock Police Department.

Grice, 56, was being held on second-degree murder and do- mestic violence. She was taken into custody on July 18 after she walked out of a residence on the 9600 block of Timber Hawk Circle in Highlands Ranch. Inside, a man was found shot to death. Grice’s bond was set at $500,000.

According to the Sheri ’s O ce, the Critical Incident Response Team is tasked with death investigations on critical incidents and in-custody deaths. ere is no timeframe for the report to be complete.

South Platte Reservoir.

Two smaller rights the district has is Tarryall Creek and Michigan Creek which are both tributaries to the South Platte River - a junior right of the district.

Centennial Water infrastructure e district has access to water in four reservoirs. ese reservoirs include the James Tingle Reservoir, the Chat eld Reservoir and the McLellan Reservoir. e South Platte Reservoir was built by Centennial Water in 2006 and they own all 6,400 acre feet. ter Court system helps manage and has administration over water decrees and oversees proper use. ere are seven di erent water court divisions for each of the major river basins in the state. ose who take water from a stream or underground aquifer and apply that water to a bene cial use must have water rights to legally do so.

Joseph B. Blake Water Treatment Plant where the water gets treated.

According to Klein, two ways of having water rights processed are through junior and senior water rights.

Water rights can also be purchased as common water rights are used by municipalities, for irrigation, re protection, farming, recreation and more.

“It’s a very complicated system,” said Sandberg. “We wanted to give awareness of the water rights system, of where your water comes from, and how complicated it can be to get water for people.”

Centennial Water’s Supply is half owned and half leased.

A majority of leased water comes from the City of Englewood (70%). Leased water also comes from Denver Water, the WISE Project, the Center of Colorado and Castle Pines North.

Centennial Water owns about half of the water rights, which comes from various sources.

Nearly half of the owned water is part of the augmentation plan. is plan allows for the district to pick up the water from the river, retreat it and reuse it.

Chat eld Reservoir makes up 30% of the district’s owned water supply and the remaining comes from areas such as Plum Creek, Cline Ranch, South Platte River and e water is pumped to a occulation basin where a chemical called ferric sulfate is added, along with specialized polymers. ese particles and chemicals get mixed together, creating what it called ocs. e bottom of the occulation basin is continuously scrapped out and the resulting sludge gets sent to the Marcy Gulch Wastewater Treatment Plant where that water is sent back into the river. e clear water goes through a lter with carbon and ne sand. “ is removes those extra ne particles,” said Klein. “And when these lters clog, clean water is shot back through them to backwash the lters and that backwash water is also sent to Marcy Gulch Wastewater Treatment Plant.” e nal treatment step is disinfection where UV light is used to kill microbes in addition to the use of chlorine, which kills contaminants quickly at the initial disinfection and chloramine which helps protect the pipes through the disinfection system.

First, the di erent water sources get pumped to the forebay where larger debris such as branches, pebbles and trash settle out.

From there, the water goes to another basin where the ocs settle out, leaving clear water.

“We have to make sure we have enough chloramine in our system to protect the water after it is sent out of our plant,” said Klein.

Pumps send the water to the six storage tanks in Highlands Ranch, which then ows to homes, businesses or breweries in the Highlands Ranch or Solstice area.

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