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City ditch piping project: Littleton to accept easements, discuss preservation of historic flume
Summary
Littleton council received an update from Englewood on the City Ditch piping project, which would pipe roughly 2.5 miles through reaches that include Slaughterhouse Gulch Park and Littleton's maintenance yard, and heard that easements, restoration requirements and arrangements for preserving part of the historic flume will be brought back for approval.
Officials from the City of Englewood updated Littleton City Council on the City Ditch piping project and the easements and intergovernmental agreements the two cities will need before construction on reaches 3 and 4 can start.
The project matters because piping the ditch is intended to improve source-water quality, reduce operational energy and chemical use at the water treatment plant, and protect the ditch from contamination while also creating a plan to preserve the historic flume and portions of the ditch alignment, presenters said.
Brent Satterlund, Littleton public works and utilities director, introduced Englewood staff and said the project has been in planning for several years; Stephanie Ellis, project engineer for the City Ditch project, described the scope. "City Ditch is a 150 year old ditch that was built to…
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