Colorado § 31-25-508 - Storm drainage sewers - districts.
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§ 31-25-508. Storm drainage sewers - districts.
The governing body may order the construction of district sewers for storm drainage in districts to be known as storm sewer districts, the same to be prescribed by ordinance. Such sewers may include the necessary manholes, inlets, and appurtenances and shall be so constructed as to connect with some other sufficient public sewer or some natural drainage. Such districts may be divided into subdistricts to be especially named or numbered in said ordinance.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1193, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 31-25-528 as it existed prior to 1975.
(2) This section was originally numbered as § 31-25-507 in House Bill 75-1089 but was renumbered on revision in 1977 for ease of location.
ANNOTATION
City is not bound to protect property below street level. It is a general doctrine in which the authorities almost universally concur, that a city is not bound to protect from surface waters those who may be so unfortunate as to own property which is below the general level of the street. City & County of Denver v. Stanley Aviation Corp., 143 Colo. 182, 352 P.2d 291 (1960).
The owner of a dominant estate has a legal as well as a natural easement for servitude on the lands downstream for drainage of surface water flowing in its natural course. Ambrosio v. Perl-Mack Constr. Co., 143 Colo. 49, 351 P.2d 803 (1960).
Thus, the city of Denver has a legal as well as a natural easement for servitude on the lands downstream for drainage of surface water flowing in its natural channel, and if not negligent in the installation of a drainage pipe and in failing to foresee probability of unusual flood occurring 20 years thereafter, no liability attended. City & County of Denver v. Stanley Aviation Corp., 143 Colo. 182, 352 P.2d 291 (1960).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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