June 30, 2008--Project aims to replenish aquifer (Colorado Springs Gazette)
The aquifer beneath the Upper Black Squirrel basin took a million years to form, as water rushing down from the mountains carved an underground lake with fingers stretching for miles beneath the eastern El Paso County plains. By some estimates, it could be depleted in less than 100 years. Water users and the Colorado Geological Survey are working on a plan to replenish this disappearing aquifer, an ambitious project to pump underground 500,000 acre feet of water - six times what Colorado Springs Utilities customers use in a year - to create Colorado's first manmade underground storage reservoir.
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