Rep. Lauren Boebert Announces 20 Community Project Funding Requests – 2 in Prowers County

EDITOR’S NOTE:  WE INCLUDED ONLY THE TWO PROWERS COUNTY FUNDING REQUESTS FOR STORY LENGTH

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-04) is proud to announce the 20 Community Project Funding requests made for her district in Fiscal Year (FY) 2027. The requests are focused on water and infrastructure projects that affect a majority of the 21 counties in the district and directly impact the well-being of communities of all sizes.

“Constituents throughout Colorado’s 4th District have made clear their top priorities: reliable access to clean water and improved roads, bridges, and airport facilities. From families in Bristol facing elevated radium levels in their drinking water, to residents in Nunn contending with an aging 1921 water tower that is critical for water security and emergency preparedness, Sedalia’s reliance on failing septic systems, and air traffic controllers at Northern Colorado Regional Airport operating from a temporary facility with significant safety limitations — these projects address critical infrastructure needs that have gone unmet for too long,” said Congresswoman Lauren Boebert “I will fight to ensure these projects are included in the final Fiscal Year 2027 Appropriations bill so that taxpayer dollars are returned to the 4th District to fund these critical projects.”

Background:

In FY 2026, 13 of Rep. Boebert’s community project funding requests were signed into law including $14.75 million for Colorado water and infrastructure projects throughout the 4^th Congressional District.

For FY 2027, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert submitted the below community project funding requests for important Colorado water and infrastructure projects. Funding request letters for each of these individual projects and their federal nexus can be read HERE.

Additional details regarding Rep. Boebert’s FY 2027 Community Funding Projects are below:

Project Title: Bristol Water Treatment Facility

Organization: Bristol Water and Sanitation District

Subcommittee: Interior and Environment

Location: Bristol, CO

County: Prowers

Amount Requested: $2,000,000

Project Description: The town of Bristol is a small disadvantaged rural community in eastern Colorado. The water district is under an enforcement order from Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to reduce levels of radium in our water which currently exceed the EPA limits. A new water treatment facility is needed to reduce the level of combined radium below EPA maximum limits.

Bristol WSD has recently exceeded the EPA limits for combined radium and we are under a legal enforcement by the state of Colorado to reduce the radium levels. The treatment being planned to reduce the radium is based on using Hydrous Manganese Oxide (HMO) type of filtering to remove the radium. This was recommended by their engineering firm after exhaustive analysis of all possible solutions to the radium problem. This approach will be costly, especially considering the size of our town but it seemed to be the least costly among the alternatives.

Project Title: Town of Holly Sewer Line Repair/Replacement

Organization: Town of Holly

Subcommittee: Interior and Environment

Location: Holly, CO

County: Prowers

Amount Requested: $3,917,613.05

Project Description: The Town of Holly has three critical sewer lines in need of replacement or repairs: two are between commercial services and residential areas and the third one is from a residential into a (HUD) housing area. These sewer lines are estimated to be nearly 100 years old.

Aging infrastructure has created ongoing challenges for the town and poses a risk to public health, environmental quality, and the community’s long-term economic stability.

Holly is a small rural community with a significant population of elderly residents and households living on fixed incomes. The town’s mean household income is below the county average, making it extremely difficult for residents to absorb the financial burden of large scale infrastructure repairs without outside assistance.

The town has already invested local resources into the project, including: Funding engineering and preliminary planning costs; Completing video inspections of the sewer lines to document deterioration and identify priority repairs; Moving forward with the design phase of a drinking water study to further strengthen their water infrastructure systems; Identifying in-kind contributions and match options to support the project.