STERLING, Colo. — Just west of Sterling, Colorado, the Sage Pointe neighborhood is in crisis.

Families tell Denver7 Investigates their private water and sewer system is failing, and they are being asked to foot a skyrocketing bill.

“There’s roughly 90 plus homes here,” Jason Sanders told Denver7 Investigates. “We had no awareness of it, no disclosure of it, but now we’re having to front the bill.”

Sanders said his family was never informed that the community operates on its own well water and septic system when he purchased his home there in 2023.

That system is currently under a state cease-and-desist order due to past code violations.

Heather Gage, secretary for both the Sage Pointe HOA and the Metro District board, said the original wastewater treatment plant didn’t meet code and w

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