Boulder City Council voted unanimously at its Feb. 17 meeting to waive thousands of dollars in potential bulk water charges racked up by Skijoring the Big Rock, which last month used city water to make snow for the first time in its five-year history.
City Administrator Brian Bullock told the council that the Boulder Valley Skijoring Association’s borrowed SMI PoleCat snow machine used 428,000 gallons of water, which would incur a $4,280 charge at the city’s penny-per-gallon bulk rate.
The machine produced roughly 12,000 cubic feet of snow that volunteers trucked from Boulder’s wastewater treatment facility to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds for the Jan. 31-Feb 1 event. Rather than requesting a waiver, organizers told Bullock they were willing to pay for the water.
