From 9News.com (Chris Vanderveen):
…600,000 cubic yards of sediment. “That’s the equivalent of a pile of sediment on the Broncos home field 200 feet high,” says Doug Raitt, the Strontia Springs Reservoir Dredging project manager for Denver Water…
This week a number of giant pumps started to arrive to assist in the project. The “straw” is 7 miles long. It willl help take the sediment from the reservoir to the mouth of Waterton Canyon. Five separate pumps will assist the flow of the water and sediment. “It requires a boost periodically down the canyon road,” says Raitt. Once down the road, the sediment will be collected in a 15-acre sight where it will eventually be sold off…
The bulk of the work will really begin in the spring when the frozen water in the reservoir fully melts. If all goes well, the project should be done in September of next year.
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