(This article was originally published on March 10, 2022, but it is still a relevant guide to the experimental wastewater treatment plant that is being built in the Westcliffe city limits by Round Mountain Water and Sanitation District. The new wastewater plant should be completed this year) 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…

