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Metro Water Recovery

Metro Water Recovery received a National Environmental Achievement Award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies during a February conference in Sonoma, California.

Metro Water Recovery is a resource recovery and clean water agency in the Rocky Mountain West that formed under Colorado law in 1961. It has partnerships with 61 local governments including cities, counties and sanitation districts, and serves about 2.2 million people in an 805 square-mile area.

Metro Water Recovery received the award for its South Platte River Aquatic Life/Habitat Improvements Project. e main goal of this six-phase project is to increase dissolved oxygen levels and improve aquatic life habitat for native sh communities. Phase V will be initiated this year, and it will entail an array of work including a biological survey, construction, monitoring water quality and a sh survey to be done annually into the future.

To learn more, visit metrowaterrecovery. com

Jordan Parman, senior water quality scientist for Metro Water Recovery, conducts a sh survey in the South Platte River. Photo courtesy of Metro Water Recovery.

OVME ere are many OVME locations across the eastern U.S., and the Cherry Creek North location is its rst Colorado location as well as its furthest west location. It is located at 180 Clavton Lane.

OVME, a medical aesthetic enterprise, has opened in Denver’s Cherry Creek North.

Pronounced “of me,” OVME delivers “curated medical aesthetic experiences in contemporary and welcoming environments,” states its website.

To learn more about OVME, visit ovme.com.

Photo courtesy of OVME’s website.

Correction

Last month’s story about Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose incorrectly stated the cost of the statue.