From KKTV.com (Jessica Leicht):
Wednesday marked this year’s first stormwater project, a detention pond at Woodmen Road and Sand Creek.
Unlike a retention pond, detention ponds temporarily store excess storm water. This project should help prevent flooding — and stop sediment from going downstream and ending up in places like Pueblo.
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said this is just the beginning of the city’s stormwater commitment.
Suthers said since the city did away with the stormwater enterprise six years ago, the city hasn’t been spending the amount of money it should be spending on stormwater projects.
The city said it plans to commit $445 million over the next 20 years to projects that will benefit the city and our downstream neighbors in Pueblo County.
“We have a responsibility as the city grows and creates more impervious surfaces that drain into our creek basins; we have a responsibility to make sure that doesn’t damage property here, or downstream,” Suthers said.
The detention pond project costs $3 million and is expected to be completed by June.
The city said it plans to spend $19 million this year on stormwater projects.