When former Custer County resident Yarrow Spitzfaden first heard about electrocoagulation and what it could do for her former hometown, she made a call to Round Mountain Water and Sanitation Director Dave Schneider to share what she had learned as an administrative assistant for the Department of Water Quality Management at Red Rocks Community College located in Lakewood, Colorado. That observation of a former resident, raised in the Valley, might have made all the difference for the Round Mountain special district as it faced the seemingly intractable obstacle of replacing a failed 48-year-old water treatment facility. It would not be a stretch to say that Round Mountain is facing a threat that could bring the economic foundation of Custer County to its knees trying to…
