Southern Delivery System

Springs Utilities' board hears details of pipeline negotiations

Colorado Springs Utilities and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation are drawing closer to an agreement on the cost of long-term contracts that will allow the utility to store and convey water through Pueblo Reservoir for the Southern Delivery System.... Full story

SDS negotiations end without an agreement

DANIEL CHACÓN

FOUNTAIN – Negotiations between Colorado Springs Utilities and the federal Bureau of Reclamation involving the Southern Delivery System ended today without an agreement.... Full story

Council OKs water rate hikes, advances pipeline project

EILEEN WELSOME

The construction of the Southern Delivery System, a 62-mile water pipeline that has been under discussion for 15 years, edged closer to becoming a reality after the City Council Tuesday approved on a 8-1 vote the first two of six planned 12 percen... Full story

Springs Utilities proposes 2.3 percent rate hike next year

R. SCOTT RAPPOLD

Colorado Springs Utilities on Wednesday presented a $1.1 billion 2010 budget to City Council. Included is a 2.3 percent hike to residential bills. The budget is $12.3 million less than in 2009. Officials say the rate increase is needed to pay for... Full story

City Council approves SDS plan that doubles water rates over next decade

R. SCOTT RAPPOLD

Colorado Springs residents will pay dearly over the next decade for the water officials say is needed for the city’s future. Sitting as the Utilities Board, the City Council on Wednesday approved a plan for financing and building the Southe... Full story

Utilities secures key permit for Southern Delivery System

R. SCOTT RAPPOLD

PUEBLO • After 20 years of casting around Colorado for a new source of drinking water, Colorado Springs Utilities has a crucial permit to build a pipeline. Pueblo County commissioners voted 3-0 Tuesday to issue a 1041 land-use permit for the... Full story

Like a duck to water, city always looking for more

R. SCOTT RAPPOLD

When Gen. William Palmer laid out a new town in the shadow of Pikes Peak in 1871, he probably never imagined it would grow to nearly 380,000 residents, the second-largest city in the state. If he had, he might have built it somewhere else.... Full story

Obama administration signs off on Southern Delivery System pipeline

R. SCOTT RAPPOLD

The Obama administration has issued final approval for Colorado Springs' $1.1 billion water pipeline, the Southern Delivery System. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Monday it signed a record of decision, allowing Colorado Springs Utilities... Full story

Utilities takes case for pipeline to Pueblo

R. SCOTT RAPPOLD

PUEBLO •.Colorado Springs Utilities, hoping to overcome years of bad feelings with Pueblo over water issues, brought its case for the Southern Delivery System pipeline here Tuesday night. Utilities officials say the proposed $1.1 billion pipe... Full story

Udall urges delay of Southern Delivery System

PAM ZUBECK

Mark Udall wants to delay a Colorado Springs water project and is urging federal authorities to give "serious attention and full consideration" to Pueblo Chieftain publisher Bob Rawlings' opposition.... Full story

Pipeline route still unknown

PAM ZUBECK

The city of Colorado Springs, which has spent $74 million on its pipeline project, has stopped buying land for an east-side reservoir that has cost $6.4 million.... Full story

Some downstream aren't happy with Southern Delivery System plans

R. SCOTT RAPPOLD

PUEBLO - Colorado Springs' gain is the rest of southern Colorado's loss, according to several residents who attended a public meeting here Wednesday night on plans to pipe water north from Pueblo Reservoir. About 100 people were at the second of s... Full story

Rivera wants Gallagher out of water talks

Mayor Lionel Rivera wants Councilman Tom Gallagher barred from decisions about a proposed water pipeline because of Gallagher’s involvement with a firm competing with Colorado Springs for water rights.... Full story

$54 million pipeline prelude

Colorado Springs Utilities has spent nearly 10 percent of the estimated $593 million cost of a pipeline project’s first phase, and not a spade of dirt has been turned.... Full story

Banning talks over reservoir at a ‘stalemate’

A few days after the Colorado Springs City Council allowed construction to begin on Banning-Lewis Ranch, a Colorado Springs Utilities official said talks for a new reservoir on the site aren’t going as smoothly as he’d like. ... Full story

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