Sixty-five miles southwest of the Aurora Municipal Center is Spinney Reservoir. It’s one of 12 reservoirs that provide water to the Colorado city, and conditions are just as dry there as they are in the Denver metro area.
“Compared to other previous years we are definitely lower,” said Aurora Water spokesperson Shonnie Cline.
Spinney Mountain State Park is located near Lake George in Park County and closed for the season, but you can see even from the road that water levels are lower than they usually are. It’s same story across many of the other reservoirs in the state…