In addition to water rights and storage, SMWSA members are working on construction of the infrastructure necessary to keep water flowing and ready for drinking.

ACWWA Joint Water Purification Plant

In 2009, ACWWA and the Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District completed the Joint Water Purification Plant (JWPP). This water treatment facility will treat Cherry Creek water with multiple processes including cartridge filters, reverse osmosis, advanced oxidation, air strippers and disinfection. Wastewater from the ACWWA and CWSD customers will be treated at the existing ACWWA Lone Tree Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The JWPP will eventually serve 12,000 residents and more than 30,000 employees. It will provide up to 12 million gallons per day of very high quality water from Cherry Creek, a renewable source of water. The two water authorities developed this cooperative project to meet the increasing demand of their water customers and reduce reliance on deep ground water supplies that will eventually be depleted.

Chambers Line Pipeline

SMWSA began work on the Chambers Road Pipeline in 2009. The project continues to move forward with the Chambers Pipeline from ECCV's Western Line to Rueter Hess Reservoir. In 2010, the Authority identified the necessary Right of Way (RoW) and solved conflict issues with other utilities proposed to go into Chambers Road.

SMWSA also met with the E-470 Authority to secure a crossing. Our plans for 2011 are to purchase the RoW from the E-470 Authority for approximately $70,000 and to begin the engineering design. For the engineering design, SMWSA has budgeted $550,000 in 2011 with the balance of the engineering to be complete in 2012. We also intend to complete acquisition of the RoW. A formal process with Douglas County will be initiated.