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August 10, 2017
BACK TO SCHOOL: Supply drives help students start year prepared P16
DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO
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Water pipeline shrouded in secrecy worries residents
WILD RIDE:
Larkspur-area residents question project after receiving letters
Cowboys provide gripping action at the fair P6
BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The letters that Larkspur-area residents Dwight Steyn and his wife, Suzanne Fecteau, and other Douglas County property owners received in April from a company wanting easements on their properties for construction of a water pipeline has spawned a confusing mystery for which even town and county officials have no answers. But there are plenty of questions: What is the water pipeline for? Where will it be built and where will the water go? Who is the company building it and asking for the easements? “There have been several attempts at trying to contact them,” Larkspur Town Manager Matt Krimmer said of the companies involved with the pipeline. “They have been unresponsive or we have been told they can’t give us any information because it is proprietary.” On July 25, nearly 100 Douglas County residents gathered in Larkspur for a public meeting about the SEE PIPELINE, P17
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