Southern Colorado to receive a big boost in funding

PUEBLO  — The Arkansas Valley Conduit obtained $60 million in federal cash. The AVC is a deliberate 130-mile water-delivery system from the Pueblo Dam to communities all through the Arkansas River Valley in Southeast Colorado.

This funding will pace up the development timeline and permit for federal consuming water requirements to be met extra shortly.

The Conduit is the ultimate section of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Challenge, which Congress licensed in 1962.

The mission is a pipeline that can feed filtered water from Lake Pueblo to 39 communities within the decrease Arkansas River Valley.

“Among the communities down within the decrease Arkansas valley has water contaminated by radio nuclei,’ mentioned Chris Woodka of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, “We hope that contemporary water coming via pueblo will alleviate a whole lot of these water high quality issues.”

Work is anticipated to start out early subsequent yr and be accomplished inside the subsequent 8 years.

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