The mountain town of Avon and its local water district board came together Thursday to salvage a $1.5 million state grant for what’s been described as an
“ingenious” system to use heat from wastewater treatment to melt snow on downtown streets and warm the recreation center pool.
According to some officials, the grant, part of Gov. Bill Ritter’s New Energy Communities Program, was endangered by a funding squabble between the town and the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District (ERWSD).