South Fort Collins Sanitation District, Fort Collins-Loveland Water District announce separation

FORT COLLINS and LOVELAND — The South Fort Collins Sanitation District and the Fort Collins-Loveland Water District announced Wednesday that they will separate and become two fully independent districts. 

The districts have operated as a close partnership — sharing operations, management and staff — since the SFCSD was formed in 1964. Together, they serve more than 50,000 people and business in a 60-square-mile area that includes Fort Collins, Loveland, Timnath, Windsor and unincorporated Larimer County.

The separation is planned to be complete by the end of 2023.

The separation is mutual, and both districts are “actively collaborating to support the

objective for separate and…