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Castle Rock water staff to begin charging $1,500 fee for expedited sidewalk "chase drain" installations
Summary
Castle Rock Water presented changes to its chase drain program, proposing a $1,500 customer fee to avoid a one-year monitoring requirement; council received the report but took no formal vote.
Castle Rock Water officials told the Town Council on May 20 that the utility will change how it handles homeowner requests for sidewalk ‘‘chase drains,’’ small metal drains installed in sidewalks to control persistent dry‑weather groundwater.
The town’s water operations manager, Mark Marlow, said the current program (in place since 2008) requires town staff to monitor a site for a year before approving and paying for an installation; Castle Rock Water has funded about 72 approved chase drains to date at an average installed cost of roughly $4,500 each. Marlow told council the most common causes of the…
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