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Free rain on the range: the giant Sterling Ranch development in Douglas County wants to use rainwater for landscaping.

Publication: ColoradoBiz
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Free rain on the range: the giant Sterling Ranch development in Douglas County wants to use rainwater for landscaping.([WHO OWNS COLORADO])

Article Excerpt
The nascent 3, 120-acre Sterling Ranch is a prospective infill development on the largest contiguous parcel of land in northwestern Douglas County.

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The land's treeless panorama offers views of open space to the south and east, and to the west views of attractions including Roxborough State Park, Chatfield State Park, Waterton Canyon, the South Platte River and the Lockheed Martin Space Systems headquarters complex.

The prospective residential-commercial community sits atop the declining Denver Basin aquifer in Douglas County, which is not dwindling: According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Douglas was the only Denver metro-area county to record positive job growth in 2008.

Sterling Ranch managing partner Harold Smethills cites two innovative approaches to water conservation, one strategic and one tactical, so to speak.

The tactical one came into play in June, when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law a bill permitting as many as...

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