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New Thornton reservoir ‘like no place else’ in the world


Tony Gaudry is a miner who works 300 feet underground – and a mile from Homewood. Since 2011, he
has shored up a 30-foot-high tunnel with steel, rebar and concrete, preparing four slots for steel doors
that will slide open one morning in August, letting billions of gallons of storm water and sewage flood
the north lobe of the Thornton Quarry.

What was under water 350 million years ago will be under water again this…

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