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<br />r--. <br />':.) <br />c:> <br />(..1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Parachute water supply comes from two springs located <br />about 2 miles east of town on a bluff overlooking the south <br />bank of the Colorado River. These springs yield about 360 <br />acre-feet per year, which is not sufficient to accommodate <br />any significant population increase. Parachute is now <br />developing a system to augment its supply by pumping from <br />the Colorado River. A large storage tank has been con- <br />structed, and designs for diversion and pumping facilities <br />are nearly completed. Use of the river water will result in <br />higher pumping and treatment costs. <br /> <br />The town of Silt obtains municipal water from a shallow well <br />and treatment plant on an island in the Colorado River. The <br />well collects water from the alluvial grave. Although the <br />supply is adequate, the quality of this water is poor. <br /> <br />Construction has commenced on a new community, Battl ement <br />Mesa, located on the south side of the Colorado River across <br />from Parachute. The land for the development includes about <br />350 acres of historic irrigated lands for which the water <br />rights were also acquired. <br /> <br />There are no rural domestic water systems south of the <br />Colorado River. Some farm families living next to perennial <br />streams have drilled shallow wells into the alluvial <br />aquifers. Those living on higher ground rely mostly on <br />cisterns filled from nearby irrigation ditches or with water <br />hauled from other sources. The sources are not very depend- <br />able nor is the quality good. <br /> <br />Present water use rates in the project area are difficult to <br />determine. Rifle is the only community with individual <br />water meters, and since they were only installed in 1976, <br /> <br />A-lO <br />