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Platte Canyon Water and Sanitation District is honored to provide water distribution and wastewater collection services to 17,217 residences and businesses in western Arapahoe, eastern Jefferson, and northern Douglas Counties. The District appreciates the opportunity to communicate timely news and information about its services and related topics to citizens, builders, vendors, and other interested parties by use of this website.
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We also encourage you to attend the District's Board of Directors meetings held at 8:30 a.m. on the fourth Friday of each month at the District office, 8739 W. Coal Mine Ave.
District News Articles
6/26/2009
CLOSED CIRCUIT INSPECTION PROGRAMAn important maintenance activity District operations employees perform is closed-circuit television inspections of sanitary sewer mains. This activity provides a detailed evaluation of the condition of every sewer main owned by the District.... Read more
6/19/2009 REMINDER: DENVER WATER MONTHLY BILLING BEGINS IN JULYDenver Water will be moving from bi-monthly billing to monthly billing beginning in early July 2009. In order to communicate this change to District customers, Denver Water's extensive communications campaign continues through August. ... Read more
6/12/2009 LITTLETON SEWER RATES TO RISE IN 2009Sanitary sewer service bills scheduled to be mailed to Platte Canyon residents on June 15, 2009 will reflect a six percent increase over 2008 charges. Annual charges for a single family homeowner in Platte Canyon will be $190.87, a $10.80 increase from the 2008 rate of $180.07. Service charges for multi-family customers will rise $9.18 from $153.06 in 2008 to $162.24 this year. The increase is needed to pay for increased sewer treatment plant operation and maintenance costs as well as debt service expenditures.... Read more
6/12/2009 PLATTE CANYON PARTICIPATES IN COMPREHENSIVE SEWER RATE STUDYDuring Littleton City Council deliberations over sanitary sewer service charge adjustments in 2008, Platte Canyon and other connector district representatives urged Council members to conduct a professional, unbiased comprehensive rate study. The districts offered to share the cost of the study on a proportional basis. Not only did Council refuse to authorize the study, it ignored City staff’s recommendation for an equitable rate increase and, rather, adopted a discriminatory 20 percent increase assessed solely on outside-city residents and businesses.... Read more
6/12/2009 SEWER CONNECTION DISTRICTS FORM COALITIONAfter the City of Littleton imposed a one sided 20 percent sewer service charge increase on outside-City customers and no increase on Littleton customers in 2008, a number of water and sanitation districts joined together to form the Littleton Sewer Rate Coalition (Coalition). The purpose of the Coalition is to promote fair and equitable sewer rates and tap fees for member customers.... Read more