Public Meeting Storm Water Project
Upcoming meeting regarding the Platte to Park Hill: Stormwater Systems project.
The project is an important drainage and community improvement effort led by the City and County of Denver that will provide a foundation to identify opportunities for flood protection during significant storm events. It will also identify opportunities for phased enhanced multimodal connectivity, water quality amenities and other community improvements to the Cole, Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea, River North, Clayton, City Park and Northeast Park Hill neighborhoods.
The first public meeting for this project was held November 17th and provided an overview of the project as well as an initial look at some of the alternative concepts being explored. The City Park neighborhood is an important part of this process as we work to understand opportunities for storing water within City Park Golf Course during large storm events in order to reduce flooding to the downstream neighborhoods. We hope you can join us to discuss community-specific issues and considerations surrounding the detention alternatives that have been developed to date.
The meeting will take place:
Tuesday, January 12
6:30-8:00PM
2500 York St, Denver, CO 80205
See Designs and Plans Below.
https://www.denverinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Two-Basins-Concept-Development-Nov2015-1.pdf
This project to protect the controversial I 70 project,as proposed by the city, from toxic stormwater run off. It will, according to city officials, do NOTHING to alleviate the decades of toxic run off flooding caused by an antiquated, broken storm sewer system, in Park Hill or North Park Hill.
Storm water run off is toxic and it is untreated. The toxic run off picks up dangerous chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, oil and debris from brakes and tires, bacteria , human and animal feces ( remember our thousands of homeless neighbors who have no public toilets at their disposal), viruses, pathogens, pharmaceuticals and more, as they race through our neighborhoods and parks on land that has been unfortunately all covered up with hard surfaces like roads , parking lots , on its way to the nearest body of water the south Platt.
From my point of view the city is proposing two unacceptable, seemingly cheap fixes for their I70 flooding problem. 1. Bulldozing 17 acres on the north west corner of City Park Golf Course, wiping out many mature trees and the club house and Bogey’s on the Park, to put in a sump that will collect toxic run off from big storms, up to 15 feet deep, and let the toxic goo sink into the ground in the park . Or, 2, put in open channels for toxic run off , through the Cole neighborhood next to homes where people live. the city says that they are gong to put a trail next to the open “ditch’ so that people and animals will play and exercise next to it. Ugh.
The city needs to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan that protects I 70, if it goes through, and does not expose citizens toxic run off that could contaminate our park land and/or create unhealthy conditions for citizens. The city has been collecting stormwater fees for decades and it might be time that they spent some of it on fixing our crumbling infrastructure. Cheap isn’t always the best or most healthy way to go. there is always plenty of money for pet projects like the Western Stock show or a brand new city out by DIA. The city had better learn how to take care of the city it has, Denver, before begins to build a new one.