By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado
After years of fighting for clean drinking water, a Morgan County neighborhood is finally getting help. A series of stories by CBS Colorado exposed a water district disaster 20 years in the making and got the attention of Gov. Jared Polis.
Now, he’s doing what many other government officials have failed to do – he’s helping.
The governor says every Coloradan deserves to have clean water. Yet, all the checks and balances meant to ensure safe drinking water failed at Prairie View Ranch Water District and residents say the people they turned to for help turned a blind eye.
Their drinking water is now black sludge that certified lab tests show has unsafe levels of radioactive lead and uranium.