Arapahoe County will now own more than 45 miles of the historic High Line Canal, one of Colorado's most popular urban trails.
Arapahoe County will now own more than 45 miles of the historic High Line Canal , one of Colorado's most popular urban trails.
"We're a long-range, forever institution that needs to provide water to the metro area," he says."The county really becomes this better agency, because they have both stormwater functions and recreation functions and maintenance funding sources that can better care for it. Our charter and our mission is pretty direct that we're a water provider to the citizens."
When Duff and Eaton set out to build the 71-mile canal, they knew it would be the longest canal in Colorado at the time. Eaton decided the best way to do this was to use gravity instead of relying on pumps that could be expensive to maintain. Denver Water maintained the canal and continued to supply water to farmlands built alongside it. However, as the corridor alongside the canal became more urban, Roode says Denver Water began looking at turning it into a recreational trail because it was losing its farming customers.
According to Roode, the canal played a key role in developing all those areas. Even if the output wasn't great "it did spur some big development of the whole metro area from Waterton Canyon to DIA," he says.
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