Looking back, some of the 2015 highlights include:
A glorious rig. We placed a temporary siphon in Dillon Dam’s Morning Glory Spillway, and it was a glowing success. The siphon kept water flowing out of Dillon Reservoir, so fishing and boating could continue during the months crews worked to upgrade the facilities below the surface.
Liquid knowledge. We made magic happen in May, when we called on water professionals from throughout the state to share a dose of knowledge with more than 1,200 sixthgraders at the second annual Denver Metro Water Festival.
Strontia Springs Reservoir started spilling on May 2.
Bountiful fills and spills. May showers brought enough precipitation to set new records at three of our reservoirs, and a fourth saw its second-highest water levels in history. Then we got the thrill of seeing reservoirs spill, which is a beautiful thing when it comes to water supply. Water-wise weather watchers. May marked the second wettest month Denver-area residents have seen in 40 years. And customers clearly kept their eyes on the skies instead of watering blindly. Their decision to leave sprinklers off saved more than 2 billion gallons of water. Water use was the lowest since 1961 — when the population count was half a million people less than today.
