Caught in the Web:

Caught in the Web:

AGUILAR– Like many rural towns in southern Colorado, Aguilar set out to solve a practical problem: how to secure its water future. But what began as a carefully spun solution—an augmentation reservoir funded by federal aid—turned into something far more tangled. Over time, the reservoir project became the center of a financial web, sticky with misused funds, missing audits, bounced checks, and, ultimately, felony charges. Now, a recently obtaine…