Click the link to read the article on the Pagosa Springs Sun website (Derek Kutzer). Here’s an excerpt:
September 25, 2025
On [September 16, 2025] the Pagosa Springs Town Council voted to accept a new geothermal water rate study conducted by Roaring Fork Engineering. The town had sought the new rate study “to identify the revenue requirements to operate and maintain the geothermal system, given the recently identified capital projects … as the system has largely reached the end of its useful life,” the study states. The town, through a 2009 geothermal discharge contract with The Springs Resort, has leased water to the resort at what the lease calls “a fair market rate.”