Skeel Reservoir in Wellshire Golf Course

Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) has begun a redesign of Skeel Reservoir located in the southeast corner of the Wellshire Golf Course. The reservoir is no longer used to irrigate the golf course, and the existing earthen dam is considered a high-risk dam according to the State Engineer’s Office.

The goal of the project is to decommission the dam and convert the area to a 100-year stormwater detention pond with stormwater quality control. The project will significantly reduce the risk of flooding to downstream properties, protect human lives, and help deliver cleaner stormwater to Denver waterways. Project upgrades will include site grading to provide a safe and operational golf driving range, a new ball wash building, and recladding the existing pump house, as well as new inlets in the driving range area to capture local runoff and route it to the existing storm sewer system instead of allowing it to flow across the golf course fairways.

This project was bid in spring 2026, with construction fully funded and anticipated to start in the fall of 2026.

Skeel-planting-plan.pdf(PDF, 2MB)