WSP08897

• File Number: 8449.913
• Description: Platte River Basin-Miscellaneous Small Projects and Project Studies-Windy Gap/Foothills
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/1970
• Author: DenverBoardWatCommis
• Title: Foothills Project-Water-The Essence of Life
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

Sampling stations which have been
established on the streams and stor-
age reservoirs of Denver's mountain
water sources are located to detect and
isolate any pollution entering the system.
Highly simplified, treatment consists of
screening water, adding chemicals such as
chlorine, alum, lime and carbon, followed
by mixing, settling, filtering and disinfec.
tion. After treatment, purified water is sent
to clear water reservoirs !ocated through.

out the city and from there to customers
by gravity flow or under pressure supplied
by pumping stations.

Water in these reservoirs as we!! as that
received by customers is tested continually
to make sure of quality and taste at the
tap. Denver is noted for initiating the use
of chloramines as a bactericide, a process
now employed by hundreds of other com-
munities.

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