The City of Denver has issued a Request for Proposals for an extensive drainage project that will be built along a much-used residential street.
The Torreys Peak General Storm project is designed to improve drainage and lessen the flooding, ponding, and icing that regularly occurs on E. Ellsworth Avenue.
The roughly $4 million to $4.4 million project is the second phase of a drainage improvement effort whose first phase was completed two years ago in the Cherry Creek neighborhood just to the west of E. Ellsworth.
The new work will take in a two and a half block area and will also see the building of new curbs and gutters, curb ramps, driveways, and sidewalk improvements. Additional work will include waterline adjustment.
E. Ellsworth runs east to west through a historic section of Denver dotted mostly with century-old homes.
The RFP has a submission deadline of June 27.
By Garry Boulard
