Monument’s council ordered a draft e-bike and e-moto ordinance carrying a $250 fine for parents, sent a Jackson Creek Parkway drive-thru back over its driveways, and approved a shop building that the site’s own well had already shrunk.
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The Water Under the Palmer Divide
The water in the Arapahoe aquifer beneath Monument fell as rain around the end of the last ice age. The U.S. Geological Survey dated it: a median of about 24,000 years, against 2,000 years for the shallower Dawson and more than 30,000 for the Denver below it. Those three stacked sandstone layers remain a primary, […]
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Woodmoor’s Musty Water and the Renewable-Water Project It Now Plans Alone
Woodmoor says an algal bloom caused musty-tasting water that still met all standards. With its Loop partners now gone, it plans a smaller project alone.
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Palmer Lake Board of Trustees, August 13, 2026: A New Administrator, a Land Swap and a Legal Bill Past Budget
Palmer Lake hired a permanent town administrator, declared a water emergency, gave a Hermosa Avenue land swap an informal 3-1 blessing the mayor had to recuse himself from, and learned legal spending has passed $174,600 with five months of the year to run.
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In Palmer Lake, Outdoor Watering Is Now One Hour a Week, by Bucket
Palmer Lake’s trustees declared a Stage 1 water emergency on August 13th. Outdoor irrigation is confined to Wednesdays between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., by five-gallon bucket only. Monument Creek has been dry since mid-June.
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Monument Town Council, August 3, 2026: A Tax Sent Back, Water Rates Up, an Exit From the Loop
Monument’s council sent its ballot language back for rewriting, raised water rates for the first time since 2020, voted to leave the Loop water project, and approved a powersports dealership — all without a word of public comment.
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Monument Town Council, July 20, 2026: Lake Parking, a Data-Center Freeze and the Loop
Monument’s council started paid parking at Monument Lake, froze data centers for six months, and moved to withhold a $219,815 payment to the Loop water project.
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Drains, Lanes and Automobiles
The developer behind the Highway 83 and Walker Road rezoning also owns the private water utility that would serve it — a new plant regional reviewers say is about $1m short of funding.
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Not an HOA: The Government That Runs Much of Monument
Triview Metropolitan District plows the roads, pipes the water and mows the parks that many residents assume a homeowners’ association handles. It is something more consequential — a local government with the power to tax and borrow — and that difference explains why two neighbors in the same town can owe very different property taxes. […]
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What the Garden of the Gods Data-Center Fight Means for the Tri-Lakes
Colorado Springs approved a data center on a staff signature this month, well south of the Tri-Lakes. If the next one targets unincorporated land near Monument, the decision would fall to five county commissioners — and to an aquifer the region is already racing to escape.