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which also dried up. Most of his neighbors in Braley ,4cres have redrilled, investing as much as 520,000 fora 1,200-foot well. Patri- cia Mancuso spent a year of her daughter's college money on a new well. ,4fshar finally bought a 1,500-gallon water truck, which he drives to the nearby Roxborough water dis- No bull: Youngsters [rict and fills up at a cost of less than five dol- pose on a stuffed Lars. He shares some with neighbors and puts animal against a fake the rest into his homemade cistern. In 1494 Afshar and 120 families in five sub- backdrop atthe Na- divisions formed the Chatfield South Water iional Western Stock association and appealed to the Denver Show, Denver's an- ~`/ater Department for help. Denver said they nual January celebra- "'ere outside its service area. Chatfield South tion. During 16 days members, now negotiating for a pipeline from Roxborough, are wary of a catch-22 result if of cattle judging, the availability of water actracu developers. bronc busting, Grand "We fear that we'll do all the work, and sud- Prixjumping, and denly we'll (ind 2,000 acres of California Sheep Shearing, right next [o us," says Afshar. Afshar and his neighbors have been drilling more than 600,000 into the Denver Basin, a four layer, bowl- spectators injected shaped aquifer of ancient, rockbound water some 50 million dot- that holds about [he same volume as Lake lays into the local Erie. The problem, geologisu say, is that economy in 1996. they're on the western edge of the bowl, which slopes eastward. Municipalities and Carrying grist for the developmenu [o the east, also drilling the suburban boom (be- aquifer, are drawing down the water. Hal local, a gravel truck D. Simpson, state water engineer, reports and an earthmover that water forced upward by artesian pres- sure haz dropped as much as 800 feet in plod along Highway northern Douglu County. 36 toward boulder- Fingers point to a state law that permits