Project Information
Formerly a tough mining village, the City of Pueblo, Colorado, is situated on the shores of the Arkansas River directly below Colorado Springs. Pueblo Water, the city’s Water Works Board, provides water services to around 110,000 individuals. Since 1985, Schnabel has been offering continuous consulting services on water resources to Pueblo Water, predominantly to aid in water rights evaluation and engineering.
We have provided thorough analysis of water rights and legal assistance for a range of water rights matters such as river exchanges, conversion from irrigation to municipal use, conversion from direct flow to storage, reusable lawn irrigation return flows claims, augmentation plans, and securing water storage enlargement rights. Our water resources engineers conducted feasibility analysis and provided design and construction engineering services for the repair of three transmountain diversion canals in Pueblo – the Ewing, Columbine, and Wurtz ditches – as well as a reservoir flood inundation hydrologic analysis and mapping.
Lately, we assisted in the water rights engineering for a major water rights case that impacted around 28% of the Bessemer Irrigating Ditch Company water rights, offering substantial engineering support during discussions with Bessemer and over two dozen opposers involved in the case. Pueblo Water reached an agreement with all opponents and secured a final decree in water court without going to trial.
