DENVER — Facilities that house several Denver Water operations will need to relocate to make way for the Denver Broncos should their plans for a Burnham Yard stadium come to fruition — a venture that the team said it will pay for.

The team's ownership group, along with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, announced a plan on Tuesday for a privately funded, retractable-roof stadium in Denver , about one mile southeast from the current stadium.

However, if this plan goes forward, Denver Water, which serves 1.5 million people in Denver and the surrounding areas, will need to make some changes, the department said in its own press release Tuesday.

Denver Water has called Burnham Yard home for more than a century and constructed new infrastructure there as recently as

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