Sugar City, Colorado (Fort Collins, Pueblo, Longmont: lawyers, houses, income)

[Sugar Daddy]

Hi,

I am new to the board.

Does anyone know anyone who lives in Sugar City?

Thanks.

[lookingup]

No, but I'm about to know someone living in Olney Springs....just down the road.

[gayle bekish]

I used to live there in the summer with lloyd rogers and his dad. he had/has a lot of family in Sugar City. I would love to talk to his sister but have no way of getting in touch with her.

[B.G. Pinto]

I'm currently visiting my son here in Sugar City, Co. I have traveled and lived many places in this country, but I must say that Sugar City is the worse place I have been. It is very dry, very flat, most homes having only dirt for a yard simply because the water fees are so high making it prohibitive to water a yard. Most homes were built forty or so years ago and are in severe states of disrepair.
There are no activities in Sugar City, unless you consider the cafe an activity. There is no hunting because most farmers or ranchers here won't allow hunters and there is no fishing because Co sells it's water to Kansas, that and the severe drought for years here, the lakes are most times dry.
Only two miles west of Sugar City is a large feed lot which usually houses thousands of cows. All the untreated run off from the feed lot goes into Lake Meridith, which the locals take their children to frolic in. I prefer to call it Lake E-Coli. The smell from the feed lot drifts into town early mornings and evenings. The dust which contains dried powdered manure which contains undigested antibiotics and growth hormones covers Sugar City and is even worse in Ordway which is to the west of the feed lot. There is no sewage treatment plant here, but only open settling ponds, so between the manure and human waste, it's nasty smelling most of the time.
The only revenue for Sugar City is the land taxes which are very low, and the water which is very high and a struggling trash service. Another source of revenue is provided by the code enforcers who look for weeds in yards and seem to me to be very selective about who the law is enforced onto. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone searching for somewhere to move or vacation.

[McGowdog]

I heard that Sugar City was just like Chivington, without all the glitter.

Wow. Nice soap box there. Why somebody would waste their breath on a has-been one-horse ghost town like Sugar City is beyond me.

Why don't you go back and tell us something we don't know. If it wasn't for the ineptitude of Pueblo County commissioners voting down the WM distribution center, the Ark Valley might be thriving again like it was some two generations ago.

Let me clue you in about Colorado water laws. They don't sell water to Kansas. They give them money when we don't send them enough of THEIR WATER. It's THEIR WATER. GET IT? Colorado got taken to the woodshed by Kansas Lawyers a century ago. Welcome to the Ark Valley.

Hopefully La Junta Econ will be by shortly to add more.

Nothing wrong with detention ponds for wastewater. They are cheap and they stink. The trick is to not move into the buffer zone and complain about the smell. With no money in the budget and with the area severely drought-stricken, do you have a better plan?

[ohazco]

Originally Posted by B.G. Pinto

All the untreated run off from the feed lot goes into Lake Meridith, which the locals take their children to frolic in. I prefer to call it Lake E-Coli.

Based on evidence of contamination and cases of infection, or your opinion of feed yards? I've never heard of anyone getting sick from Merideth.

Originally Posted by B.G. Pinto

The dust which contains dried powdered manure which contains undigested antibiotics and growth hormones covers Sugar City and is even worse in Ordway which is to the west of the feed lot.

Thats a new one.

[B.G. Pinto]

McGowdog, My letter was more of a warning to anyone who might consider moving here, just my humble opinion about the place. Must be the atmosphere in SE colorado, you sound like most of the grouchy old people here. lol.

As far as no one reportedly becoming sick from swimming in Meridith, aka Beautiful Lake E-Coli, some illnesses take years to show up.

Ohazco, As far as your ignorance about the undigested antibiotics and growth hormones in the dried, powdered, airborne manure dust,,, too bad for your lack of knowledge about what goes into commercially grown beef and what comes out the other end.

[Josseppie]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

If it wasn't for the ineptitude of Pueblo County commissioners voting down the WM distribution center, the Ark Valley might be thriving again like it was some two generations ago.

I agree with this 100%. Walmart for people who do not know.

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by B.G. Pinto

McGowdog...just my humble opinion...

Humble opinion?

Originally Posted by B.G. Pinto

Must be the atmosphere in SE colorado, you sound like most of the grouchy old people here. lol.

Ah! There went your humility. You're gonna come in here with your two posts and set yourself up as an expert witness to my character? Good luck with that.

Originally Posted by Josseppie

...Walmart for people who do not know.

Walmart Distribution Center to be more accurate.

Originally Posted by B.G. Pinto

Ohazco, As far as your ignorance about

Ah! More judgement and putdowns of folks you don't even know, folks who live in the area. Nice try. Heaven forbid somebody catch a germ or something. Nutrients and biology have been going on for at least thousands if not millions and billions of years. Yet, here we are. I wouldn't want to live near a feed lot nor a pasture nor fertilized farm land nor a set of waste retention ponds etc., but it's a source of income for some.

This may be a huge news flash to you, but Sugar City is not the mecca of Southeastern Colorado. It's a stone's throw away from Ordway and two stone's throw away from Rocky Ford. Lake Meridith is primarily a reservoir for farmers anyway.

There again, it seems to me to be in distaste to sick a needle in the eye of a region devastated by a rough economy and a long drought. Why don't you go frolic up somewhere in the lush Front Range between Longmont and Fort Collins? You'll be in good company as there's plenty of other folks there.

Originally Posted by B.G. Pinto

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone searching for somewhere to move or vacation.

Well nice cape, Captain Obvious. Don't move to nor vacation in Sugar City! We're in agreement there. If you CAN live and work in and enjoy yourself there, hats off to ya.

[Josseppie]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

Walmart Distribution Center to be more accurate.

Good point. I have cousins who are farmers east of Pueblo and they tell me how that would of really helped out rural farmers east of town had it been built in Pueblo West.