An incident upstream sent tons of sediment down the Colorado River late Tuesday (7/7/09), overwhelming the Hot Sulphur springs water system and temporarily shutting it down. Turbidity was 60 times worse than the murkiest spring runoff conditions, but improved considerably by the next day. On Wednesday, water trucks arrived with potable water from Granby to keep the water system going. Hopefully, the water plant will be up and running today (Thursday). Thank you to everyone who respected the emergency watering restrictions!
It is a good thing that construction on the new water system is in the works! When the new ARRA system is in place, Hot Sulphur Springs could shut down the water plant for 2 or more days and still have dependable water in the two tanks.
