Infrastructure Scam:Product that would have saved Denver Residents millions in water treatment costs & prevented private tap failures secretly kept of the market by sewer rehabilitation giant Insituform Technologies. (Fruits of my 2 year investigation into Denver Public Works [Incompetence or corruption? ])

Ever since the mid 80’s when Denver Wastewater Department (WMD) engineers (under the direction of Joe Barsoom) disconnected the storm sewers from the sanitary sewer water treatment system the e.coli and fecal coli bacterial contamination in NW Denver watershed has increased and WMD has been trying to keep their blunder hidden from everyone.  This has culminated in October of 2007 when the largest fish kill ever occurred at Sloans Lake (The City & County of Denver’s press release instead attributed the cause to a sudden cold snap that killed algae in the lake causing the dissolved oxygen levels drop to zero.)

Because of the WMD’ Engineers actions in the 70’s and 80’s the residents of Denver have had to spend tens of millions of dollars on auxiliary programs designed to just contain water pollution levels within acceptable limits….. Millions of dollars more have been spent on replacements of the sewer taps connections…. as well as countless millions of additional water treatment costs. Now WMD engineers propose to give tens of millions of dollars more of our money to their contractors to create “bio-filters” in order to naturally cleanse stormwater to correct the mistake they made 20 years ago.  

This all because since the disconnection of the storm sewer from the treatment system storm waters run into the creeks lakes and S. Platte river untreated carrying with it pet & wild life feces as well as commercial fertilizers as well as sewerage escaping from the deteriorating sewers…. So now WMD has declared that stormwater is the major contributor e.coli and fecal coli contamination….but their keeping the sewer condition secret.   

The whole truth instead is that the reason behind WMD Engineers disconnecting the storm sewers in the first place was systemic failure due to poor design of the sanitary sewer mains. From 1975 to 1990Congress gave $90 billion to solve this problem … Where did all the money go?…mostly into contractors pockets.. Now because the problem has gotten worse Denverites will have to spend millions more…  

These same engineers live in homes in exclusive neighborhoods.. get paid as consultants for the very firms that they’ve hired as contractors…go on lavish junkets while working for WMD and have built their resumes for when the leave WMD. What does this all have to do with Insituform Technologies and rehabilitation products? …look for the next Denversewerscam posts