(24 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fort Collins, Colorado – 12 February 2025
1. Wide of mobile home exterior
2. Cat looking out window
3. Wide of Victoria Silva brushing teeth while petting cat
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
"When I moved into this mobile home community, I had no idea that water would be an issue here."
5. Various of Silva brushing teeth
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
"I would say in my mobile home park, the main issue is the frequent water shutoffs and then being unclear about what constitutes a need for a boil notice or if the water is safe or not.”
7. Water reservoir being used for electric toothbrush
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
“It’s not like you can just hold the glass up and see that it’s unsafe."
9. Various of water fountain for cats
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
"There was a time that the water was out, I was doing laundry. I didn’t know that we didn’t have any water.”
11. Medium of laundry room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
"The heating element in my water heater burned out.”
13. Various of plants in Silva’s home
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
“I’m still making payments on the thousands of dollars I had to pay for our new water heater."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arvada, Colorado – 1 April 2025
15. Various of water main and service line covers
16. Various of homes along street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 21 February 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Sullivan, Sociology professor, University of Colorado, Denver:
"With municipal water, it makes sense to us that the municipality is responsible for that water right up to the property line. So with a single family house, that means the homeowner is going to be responsible for the water on their property, and that makes sense. But in the case of a mobile home park, the municipality is responsible up to the property line, and that property might include hundreds of manufactured homes and hundreds of households who are all dependent on park infrastructure, community infrastructure.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arvada, Colorado – 1 April 2025
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18. Various drone shots of mobile home park
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 21 February 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Sullivan, Sociology professor, University of Colorado, Denver:
“What we currently have is a stock of older manufactured home communities, mobile home parks that were developed in the 70s and 80s that have seriously aged and degraded infrastructure. So these communities are in desperate need of repair. And oftentimes, the park owner has not kept up with the investments needed to maintain what are some pretty complex infrastructure.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fort Collins, Colorado – 12 February 2025
20. Various of Silva opening up panel below her mobile home to access her water and sewer lines
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 21 February 2025
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Sullivan, Sociology professor, University of Colorado, Denver:
“Our mobile home park oversight program requires now that every park in every manufactured home community in the state of Colorado have its water quality tested."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fort Collins, Colorado – 12 February 2025
22. Various of Silva filling water filter jug at kitchen sink
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
24. Various of Silva’s tub, which experienced a sewage backup
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Silva, homeowner:
26. Cat sitting on cat tower, Silva in background
27. Various of Silva doing a virtual class
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