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 Round Mountain Water and Sanitation District (RMWSD) is in a time crunch. They now have less than 180 days to build the exper­imental wastewater treatment plant approved by the Colorado Department of Public Health Administration (CDPHE), but for the project to go forward, RMWSD had to find a way to dispose of the 30 years of accumulated sludge in the water treatment ponds located northwest of Westcliffe. Last week, the company RMWSD hired, Denali Water Solutions, who tried to spread the sludge on a ranch to the south of West­cliffe, but due to the location being right next to Grape Creek, there was a lot of local pushback. Instead of trying to press forward with the local spreading of the sludge, RMWSD Dis­trict Manager Dave…