Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg
2-3PM Virtual: Active Minds Monday (every other Monday)
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class
Real World Events
9AM Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport Community Noise Roundtable
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM, 1PM, 4PM, and 6PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
6:30PM GURA Board Meeting @ City Hall
GURA will discuss plans to make West Colfax a “complete street,” which means that bike & pedestrian lanes would be included as well as vehicular traffic lanes. Most of the money for this project will come from the Federal government, but GURA will provide some matching funds–likely $125,000 this year and up to $500,000 in 2025 and 2026.
This work has been slowed and complicated by a flood control project on Lena gulch, which runs through that area. The Parks board is also waiting for completion of the flood control project, because they would like to begin turning the Bachman property (just north of Lena gulch) into a park.
Golden History Moment
93 Years Ago
Golden’s early water supply system used wooden pipes. They were built of staves, like a barrel, and held in a ring by iron bands. An August 8, 1929 Colorado Transcript article covering the recent City Council meeting tells us when the transition to iron pipes began.
Chas. Benson on the pipe line reported 111 leaks on the 16 inch stave pipe. It will not be long however, before his report will have a different tone for this pipe will be replaced shortly by iron pipe.
This was many decades before we had separate storm and sanitary sewers; in fact, having sewers at all was a pretty recent innovation–they had only been installed about ten years earlier. The City was still discovering the capacity limits to our sewer pipes:
The practice of people running the drain pipes from the eave troughs into the sewers is to be discontinued in the future and people who have them connected that way now are to be notified to change them so as to drain on the surface. The objection is the leaves and other debris that finds their way into the pipes.
Leaves, debris, and all other contents of the sewer drained directly into Clear Creek until the 1950s.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
