In 1905, when the 5,000 citizens of Greeley, Colo., voted to build a new water plant, they were making a decision with greater consequences than they could have predicted. Completed in 1907, the Bellvue Water Treatment Plant is still in operation, and still provides more than half of Greeley’s water.And it’s still about 33 miles from town, high up in the mountains, near high-altitude reservoirs and the headwaters of the Cache La Poudre River.“Thirty-three miles was a tremen-dous distance for a pipeline, even in those days, when there wasn’t much development,” says Dan Moore, P.E., a water systems engineer and
