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Littleton faces $11.2 million in storm‑sewer repairs; staff recommends temporary sewer‑fund loan and applying for state low‑interest loans
Summary
After multiple sinkholes and culvert failures in 2023, staff identified around $11.2 million in high‑ and medium‑priority storm‑sewer projects. Staff recommended a short‑term internal loan from the sewer fund for immediate 2025 repairs and applying for Colorado state revolving funds for the remaining work.
City staff presented the state of Littleton’s storm‑sewer system and a near‑term funding plan after a series of culvert failures and sinkholes exposed failing corrugated metal pipe (CMP) throughout the city. Water resources and engineering staff showed the inventory, explained the CMP life‑cycle issue and described six immediate, high‑priority projects totaling about $7 million, plus additional medium‑priority work.
Stormwater Manager Sarah White said video inspections completed starting in 2018 revealed more storm infrastructure than previously known and showed CMP installed in the 1980s…
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