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Fish make comeback at Antero If you could ask the fish, they probably the Park County town of Hartse!. Antero would tell you that construction of new long has been a popular destination for outlet works at Denver Water's Antero campers and anglers, who fish from the Reservoir is a complete success. Certainly, shore and by boat in warmer months and the anglers who cast their lines into the through the ice in the winter. Recreational 20,000-acre-foot impoundment on the South aspects are managed by the Colorado Platte River would agree. Division-6fWildlife.- Antero was "drawn down" in 1997 so Although the anglers had to wait, there that the original outlet works at the facility, were some beneficial side effects from which was completed in 1909, could be construction delays. The project permitted replaced by an up-to-date system needed to placement of a boat ramp on the reservoir's meet modern standards. To do it, Denver north side through an $18,871 grant from Water's contractors moved about 150,000 the Division of Wildlife. Other access and yards of dirt from the earth-filled dam and recreational improvements are planned. poured some 2.100 yards of concrete. While the drawing down impacted the The $2.1 million project increases general fish population, it also virtually capacity of the outlet from 550 cubic feet eliminated the troublesome razorback per second to 1,100 cubic feet per second. sucker, which gobbles up the food source While the job greatly improved the of other fish. dam's efficiency, draining the water meant The water department began refilling the that fishing and other recreation were reservoir last spring, several months before curtailed at the reservoir, which is 105 the outlet works were completed in August. miles southwest of Denver near ~ Subsequently, the Division of Wildlife l '-"'began restocking Antero with 35,000 T,P FROM THE TAP 'II' '-- ~ m:~";:"~h:.:' '"'.""", ',;,""" ,.." , I , I trout fingerlings, Get a head start 80,000 two-inch on your gardening ~!---rajnbOWS;50,600-- . "catchable" by attendmg one of a' band r III ows Denver Water's free 15,000 five-inch seminars on Xeriscape brown trout. this spring. Antero's rich Call the Conservation food source has . produced Hotline at 303-628.6343 incredible results. for a seminar schedule. Anglers earlier this year reported ON THE OTHER SIDE Sandi chotechuang's jl)~il1c1udes takingcal'ebf...... :;j;h-''?hSf~~~~7;{~;(:~ii;;ti:' catches of 16-inch cutthroats and rainbows weighing from two to five pounds. Both Denver Water and the state agency expect a low sucker count for three to five years, and are trying to establish rainbows in such quantities that they can compete when suckers do stage a comeback. Antero can be - reached by taking U.S. 285 to one mile south of Fairplay. Turn south on Colorado 9 and go about 16 miles to U.S. 24. Head west on U.S. 24 for one mile to the reservoir's access road. Water flows through a weir into the South Platte at Antero. DENVER WATER COMMISSIONERS Joe Shoemaker, President Bill Roberts, 1st Vice President Denise Maes Richard Kirk Ronald Lehr DENVER \iVATER 1600 West 12th Avenue'Denver, Colorado 80254