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Colorado declared a town abandoned amid a water supply failure and leadership meltdown. The declaration highlighted critical infrastructure and governance failures.
Colorado formally declared a town abandoned due to a combination of water supply failure and governance breakdown. The declaration is significant because towns don't usually reach that status—it takes both a critical infrastructure failure and leadership so dysfunctional that the municipality can't function. The water failure created an immediate crisis, but the leadership collapse prevented the town from responding to it, creating a cascade where both systems failed simultaneously.
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