Three events from Denver Water's year are summarized: 1) In February, a section of corroded pipe sprang a leak, creating a marsh that trapped a trash truck. Replacing the pipe reinforced Denver Water's focus on routine pipe maintenance. 2) In November, crews poured concrete to complete a new water tank in Centennial and make progress on another in Wheat Ridge. 3) Denver Water's water was ranked among the top 10 in the nation for taste by a magazine, with celebrities celebrating by drinking samples from the Moffat Water Treatment Plant.

1. The must-see scenes
of 2015
Snapshots of Denver Water’s year,
each worthy of being named the
MOST …

2. Stuck-in-the-muck truck
A section of 60-year-old
corroded pipe we were
about to decommission
sprang a leak in
February, creating a
marshy mess that
trapped a Denver
Public Works trash
truck. After the truck
was towed, we
replaced the pipe as
planned.
The mud made one
thing clear. When it
comes to maintaining
our system, we’re
headed down the right
road by prioritizing
routine pipe projects.

3. Heavy-handed pour
Crews poured
quite a lot of
concrete in
November to
top off our new
7-million-gallon
water tank in
Centennial.
We also made
progress on a
tank project in
Wheat Ridge.

4. Quirky taste test
Brisk, mineral and grassy
must make a winning
combination, since that’s
how Rodale’s Organic Life
magazine described our
water’s taste while ranking it
among the top 10 in the
nation.
(Even more, Michael
Strahan and Busy Philipps
celebrated the contest by
slugging water samples,
including one from a bottle
filled at our own Moffat
Water Treatment Plant.)

5. Daunting
paint job
If your plans to paint a
room ever seem big,
think about this mountain
of a task our crews
tackled this summer —
painting a 1,000-foot-
long siphon.
It took 90 gallons and
one week to cover the
siphon’s chipped exterior
with a fresh coat.

6. Quick-tapping teams
How long does it take to
drill into a cement-lined
iron pipe and install a
water tap?
Not long, when it comes
to Denver Water’s
rankings at the 2015
American Water Works
Association’s annual
convention. Both the
men’s and women’s
teams finished in the
top five.

7. Glorious rig
This temporary
siphon we placed in
Dillon Dam’s
Morning Glory
Spillway was a
glowing success.
The siphon kept
water flowing out of
Dillon Reservoir, so
fishing and boating
could continue
during the months
crews worked to
upgrade the facilities
below the surface.

8. Cheerful showerhead switch
We like sharing this photo of
Rick Alvarado, conservation
technician, because he
really shows how great it
feels to install more efficient
fixtures.
If you want a piece of the
joy, learn how our rebates
can help you get a shiny
new loo and save water at
the same time.

9. Bountiful fills and spills
May showers brought
enough precipitation
to set new records at
three of our
reservoirs, and a
fourth saw its second-
highest in history.
Then we got the thrill
of seeing Strontia
Springs and other
reservoirs spill, which
is a beautiful thing
when it comes to
water supply.

10. Water-wise weather watchers
May marked the
second wettest month
Denver-area residents
have seen in 40 years.
And our customers
clearly kept their eyes
on the skies instead of
watering blindly.
Their water use was
the lowest since 1961
— when the population
count was half a million
people lower.
We weren’t able to get our customers together for
a photo to celebrate their water smarts. Their
decision to leave their sprinklers off and let May’s
rains keep lawns green instead saved more than
2 billion gallons of water.

11. Watery wizardry
We made magic
happen in May, when
we deployed this
Water Wizard (aka
Greg Fisher from
Planning) and many
other water pros to
share their magic
and a dose of
knowledge with more
than 1,200 sixth-
graders at the
second annual
Denver Metro Water
Festival.

12. Beary difficult decision
Closing Waterton Canyon to
the public has been a
repeat story — one we
never feel like telling. Call it
a blessing or call it a curse,
but this recreational hot
spot’s latest issue is its
popularity for bears.
As this photo taken by
Denver Water engineer
Jared Heath shows, the
bears this year got just a
little too comfortable with
the humans.

13. A-moosing house call
Photos this great
only turn up once in
a blue moose!
Longtime Winter
Park-area
caretaker Per
Olsson’s shot
shows this is the
company you keep
as a caretaker
living and working
at Denver Water’s
more remote
facilities.

14. Warm wishes and cool plans
It would be easy for anyone
from the Denver area to share
warm memories of
September, the end of the
water year. It went down as
the warmest in our records,
which date back to 1949.
As you live out the rest of
your year, know that we’ve
started anew — with an even
bigger thirst for finding ways
to serve you.