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File #: Ordinance 21-2025    Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Public Hearing
File created: 9/26/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/21/2025 Final action:
Title: Ordinance 21-2025: An ordinance on second reading approving a sanitary sewer easement with Southwest Metropolitan Water and Sanitation District for construction of the D-Line Interceptor within South Platte Park
Sponsors: City Council
Attachments: 1. 1. Ordinance No. 21-2025, 2. 2. Southwest Metropolitan Sewer Easement Agreement, 3. 3. Presentation_Ord. 21-2025
Agenda Date: 10/21/2025

Subject:
Title
Ordinance 21-2025: An ordinance on second reading approving a sanitary sewer easement with Southwest Metropolitan Water and Sanitation District for construction of the D-Line Interceptor within South Platte Park
Body

From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Ryan Germeroth, Deputy Director of Public Works & Utilities
Presentations:
Ryan Germeroth, Deputy Director of Public Works & Utilities

PURPOSE:
An ordinance to grant an expansion of an existing Sanitary Sewer Easement from 20 feet to generally 50 feet.

LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
Safe Community

DISCUSSION:
A 20-foot easement was granted to Southwest Metro Water & Sanitation District (SWMWSD) Reception Number 805674 on April 26, 1962. A portion of the sanitary sewer main within the easement area needs to be modified to increase the sanitary capacity to serve the new development in the area. A portion of the existing Easement runs through an existing Conservation Easement and South Platte Park, Carson Nature Center.

The park was established through an agreement between Littleton and the Army Corps of Engineers/CWCB?in 1977. South Suburban manages the park under an IGA with Littleton dated April 13, 1993. Additionally, City Council and the South Suburban Board of Directors approved the 2017 Management Plan that providing guidelines to meet the goals and objectives of the 1983 Master Plan (revised 1988) as approved by Council and our Board.
With the annexation of what is now Aspen Grove and the existing condos/apartments, land dedication provided to Littleton as a buffer to South Platte Park. This is referred to as the Ensor Buffer.

Through a cost sharing agreement with SWMWSD and Private Development Groups this improvement was planned alongside the greater common development occurring south of Mineral Avenue and west of Santa Fe Parkway. This project is needed to prevent the existing sanitary sewer from being over capacity once the new developments c...

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