Denver Fails in Bid to Postpone Court Block on Dam Expansion

Denver’s Board of Water Commissioners lost its bid to suspend a federal court’s order to stop further construction of a dam, when a judge ruled the water authority’s financial concerns don’t outweigh the “irreparable injury of environmental harm.”

The US District Court for the District of Colorado on Sunday denied Denver Water’s emergency motion for a stay while the municipality appeals last week’s remedy order that vacated the Gross Dam expansion permit and ordered the US Army Corps of Engineers to perform a more thorough environmental analysis. The water authority did receive a temporary 14-day stay of the preliminary injunction ...