From The Greeley Tribune (Bill Jackson):
[Bill Tulk’s] home is among several in La Salle that have had basement flooding problems in the past couple of weeks, but Tulk and water officials said it’s something they have no control over. It’s caused by too much surface water the past three years, which comes on the heels of nearly five years of dry conditions that drove water tables to near record lows in some cases. “It’s high water levels. There’s nothing anybody can do about it,” Tulk said, except install sump pumps to keep the water out, which he has done in the past week. He said he installed one on the south side of his house about a week ago and put in another on the northwest corner of his house over the weekend. He was pumping the water into his back yard, but when it became saturated, he started pumping into the gutter and letting the water run down the street…
The homes are along the Union Ditch, an irrigation company that supplies water from a point near Milliken to east of La Salle, and some people blamed the ditch company for the problems. But Tulk and others said it’s not the company’s fault. Gary Alles of the Union Ditch Co. said the problem is fields in the area of the neighborhood that have been irrigated all summer long. On top of that, groundwater levels have risen because of an excess of surface water this year and the previous two years. “Our ditch has been running a foot and a half to 2 feet below the ditch bank all year long,” Alles said, noting that he, too, has had problems at his home northeast of La Salle. “We’ve been running two, 3-inch (sump) pumps most of the summer to keep water out of the basement,” he said, adding that his farm is at the east end of the Union Ditch.
Dick Wolfe, head of the Colorado Division of Water Resources, said levels of groundwater aquifers up and down the South Platte River have increased by 2-3 feet and his office has been getting calls throughout the summer from residents with water problems in basements. Those calls, he said, have come from Boulder all along the river to the northeast. There have been similar problems in the Ault and Nunn areas of northern Weld County, as well, Wolfe said, and again, it’s due to rising groundwater tables.
So, it breaks my heart the BS y’all spew. The real story is the city of Denver decided that all the overflows be turned off along the front range. Since they have done this, all the aquafers along the front range have risen considerably. If the overflows were turned back on, the underground aquafers wouldn’t be as high. I got thos information from the higher ups from weld county water.
Colorado does not have water problems like they tell us, we have a ton of ground water along the entire front range. Aquafers.
Not sure what you mean about “overflows”?
Thanks for commenting.
John Orr
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