Stormwater Enterprise has $1.6m in equipment to use, then sell
The soon-to-be-annihilated Colorado Springs Stormwater Enterprise has spent more than $1.6 million on trucks, trailers, mowers and other pieces of equipment since it was created in 2005, according to documents obtained under an open-records request.
The most expensive piece of equipment purchased by the city-owned agency that levies fees for drainage projects is a 2008 Vactor Sewer cleaning truck, which was purchased for nearly $339,000.
“The Vactor Sewer trucks run in that high price range,” city spokeswoman Mary Scott said today in an e-mail.
The least expensive equipment was a pair of 2008 Eagle Trailers that cost $3,536 each.
The enterprise has purchased at least nine vehicles, including two heavy-duty 2008 Ford F-350s, which were purchased for $38,490 each.
With the looming demise of the enterprise, there have been questions about the fate of the enterprise-owned equipment.
“These vehicles will be used in 2010 during the phase out of the program,” Scott said recently. “We will be doing a reduced maintenance program so we will be using the equipment required to perform the maintenance, we will also be working on the in-progress and pending (capital improvement) projects, etc. We have not yet identified what will happen with the vehicles in late 2010.”
