Water flows through the Cascade Flume south of the Ouray Hot Springs Pool on Tuesday. The City Council is considering asking voters to extend a property tax that pays for maintenance of the two flumes in Ouray and other flood-control projects. The tax is set to expire at the end of this year.
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Ouray seeks to extend flood-control tax
The city of Ouray is laying the groundwork to ask voters this fall to extend a property tax that pays for maintenance and repair of the city’s two flumes and other flood-control projects.
The tax, which is currently 2.477 mills and generates roughly $80,000 in revenue annually, was initially instituted in the 1980s. Voters renewed it in 1999, and it’s currently scheduled to sunset at the end of this year.
The tax is often referred to as the “flume tax,” but money that comes...
