Town of Castle Rock

Maintaining excellent water quality that is safe and great tasting is the core of Castle Rock Water’s public health responsibility. They strive to go beyond the State and Federal regulations to provide an exceptional water. Here’s how they are doing just that.

• Proactive in community education and testing for lead and copper exposure within qualified private properties.

• Implementation programs and education to protect water quality within the watershed.

Storing water supplies for the future

Whether it be planning for retirement or saving for college, most long-term plans require a healthy savings account. Storing water for the future, for times of high usage and drought is an essential piece in the overall water puzzle. This ensures the Town will have enough water on an annual basis to maintain the quality of life to which our residents are accustomed now and in the future. Castle Rock Water is securing storage for water supplies in area reservoirs and in underground aquifers.

The Chatfield Storage Reallocation Project is a partnership among eight water providers in the Denver metropolitan area and northeast Colorado. Its purpose is to expand Chatfield Reservoir from a flood control measure to include drinking water storage. In 2014, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the project and construction began in 2017. The expansion will provide an additional 20,600 acre-feet of storage capacity in Chatfield Reservoir and be one and a half times the size of Cherry Creek Reservoir. Each partnering organization will receive a varying amount of storage space at Chatfield once the reallocation is complete.

The total project cost is estimated to be $134 million. In June 2014, after a detailed evaluation, Castle Rock Water elected to participate in the Chatfield Reallocation Project at a 200 acre-foot subscription level for a total cost of $1.28 million. In 2015, Castle Rock signed an option agreement with the Colorado Water Conservation Board to purchase up to 1,300 acre-feet of storage space over the next 15 to 20 years.

• Castle Rock Water won the best water in the Rocky Mountain AWWA tristate region in 2015 and took second place in 2016.

• Awarded the first ever Continuing Excellence in 2020 from the regulatory agency, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, for implementing programs beyond regulatory requirements.

• Continue to earn the Environmental Leadership Program Gold status for applying programs that conserve water, energy and other natural resources in business operations.