Turbine powers treatment plant

It’s not as if Chris Harris needed another reason to boast about the hydro turbine buried beneath his front yard, but the wildflowers are too beautiful to pass up.

Sunflowers taller than toddlers are mixed in with purples, oranges and blues (yes, those are their scientific names), an explosion of color that just so happened to be peaking on a hot July morning, when yet another reporter came out to hear about him talk about the turbine.

The turbine, at least for now, remains the Fort Collins-Loveland Water District’s biggest source of pride, even more…