Having its main water supply at a high elevation has always been a mixed blessing for Pueblo Water.There is no need to pump the water to the plant because it flows downhill, but it comes in at a much higher pressure than the treatment process can handle.The solution for many years has been pressure relief valves, but now the utility, at the base of the Rocky Mountains, is looking to turn that pressure into electricity, installing two hydroturbines to capture the power of the high-pressure flow.“With the elevation difference, the water coming into our treatment plant is somewhere around 85
