Evans development continues apace with population growth

Greeley isn’t the only growing community in its corner of Weld County. Just south on U.S. Highway 85 sits Evans, which has now more than 22,000 residents, having added about 4,000 folks in the past decade and a half.

Evans is planning an expansion at its wastewater treatment plant, a facility that when it was completed in 2018 and described by the city as “largest infrastructure project it has ever undertaken.”

The facility “was quickly recognized as not being able to handle expected future capacity requirements, in approving the contract for expansion design services, the (Evans City) Councilmembers were adamant that the…