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<br />- - <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />~. <br /> <br />- . -~, <br /> <br />z <br /> <br />November 9, 1982 ** <br /> <br />]>, n \I fY .tb.st <br /> <br />'" <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Denver Water Rates <br />. <br /> <br />Must Be Subjected <br />To PUC, Judge Rules <br /> <br />'=' <br /> <br />By HOWARD PANKRATZ <br />0erl\t8f Post Legal AtI<!:fl'$ Wrilef <br /> <br />to have the utilities commissIOn <br />regulate Denver Water Board <br />rates and service. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The D('n\'(~r Water Board rnu...,1 <br />$(.U water to Denver's suburbs as <br />long as supplies last. and its rates <br />and other operations must be sub- <br />Ject to regulation by tht> state Pub- <br />bc UtihUes Commission. a Western <br />Slope Judge ruled ~fonday. <br /> <br />The ruling by District Judge Wil- <br />liam Ela of Grand Junction culmi- <br />nated a nine-)'ear effort by Jeffer- <br />son. Arapahoe and Adams counties <br /> <br />Den\'t'r lawyers Kevin O'Brien <br />and r;d Widmann representl'd the <br />lhree counties dUring a 2~-w(>(>k <br />trial of the case against the waler <br />board in ~Iar('h. O'Brit'" said "Ion. <br />day the ruling means citizens and I <br />officials of lhe countIes will be able <br />to sel'k relief from the utilities <br />commission if they have com- I <br /> <br />Please See WATER on 7.A I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />