Historic Montclair Community Assoc. Inc. (HMCAI)

The Montclair Reservoir

Dec 05, 2003

has been bone dry for the past 20 years! Imagine that! Our neighborhood reservoir (and how many neighborhoods have one of those?) was built in 1939 on a site bordered by Quebec, Quince, Eleventh Ave. and Richthofen Place, and updated over the years. Two now-empty concrete reservoirs with a capacity for 15.7 million gallons of water are topped by a large grassy area where our youth have played football and soccer since the 1950s. Across the street, on the northwest corner of Quebec and Eleventh, is the facility?’s disused pump station. Two decades ago, improvements to the delivery system for treated water made both the reservoir and pump station obsolete, according to Joe Sloan of Denver Water?’s community relations department.

He said our reservoir is being studied for a possible supporting role in Denver Water?’s new Recycled Water Project that will begin delivering recycled water next spring to commercial and industrial customers in northeast Denver. In 2006 additional non-residential customers ?– such as portions of Lowry and Stapleton ?– will be added and Montclair may be used as the system expands. The recycled water pipeline becoming operational in 2004 will eventually run from the plant in Commerce City all the way to Washington Park. The system will be a completely separate distribution system of purple pipes having no direct cross connections or interconnections between the drinking water system and the recycled water system. There could be some future construction at our reservoir if it becomes part of the recycled water system. More information at www.denverwater.org.