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<br />. <br /> <br />001438 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Oil Creek Phn <br /> <br />14. TIlis plan prevides for the diversion of about 2,000 acre-feot of <br />water annually from the upper Oil Creek ~rainage to the CataMount Creek <br />watershed. Tho diversion would have to be at an altitude in oxcess of <br />10,000 feot. Diffioulties would be encountered in replacing the diverted <br />watero Available data on the plan aro so li:nitod that 0. determination of <br />foasibility or esti..=tos of cost are iapracticable. Studies will be <br />nocossary to obtain roliable inforlilUtion. <br /> <br />L~'er Beavor Creek Plan <br /> <br />15. This plan not only'llQuld previde the oity of Colorade Springs with <br />an addj.tienal 10.300 acro....fee'\; of municipal water from Beaver Croek over <br />and a bovo the 2.700 acre-foet under the Upper Boaver Creek Plan, but oould <br />alse provide supplemontal irrigation water for the Penroso aroa. The plan <br />would involvo enlargement of the Skahuay Rosorvoir, construction of a diver~ <br />sion dam, construetion of 0. pipoline to Colorado Springs, and facilities <br />and water fer roplacement to downstream irrigators. The Skaguay Roservoir <br />could be onlarged by the oenstruotion of' 0. new dam ir,n:looiately below the <br />existing dam. The diversion dam woul(~ be about 4 milos downstrot\J:lo The <br />necessary 38-mile 26-inch municipal wator pipoline would extend along <br />Beavor Crook Canyon to Sand Creok and th~n oast and north to Colorado <br />Springs, roughly parallel te Colorado State Highway No. 115. Roplacement <br />of wator as woll as prevision of supple:JDntal water for irrigation could <br />be accooplished by reconstruction and extension of the State Ditch from the <br />,Arkansas River abovo Canyon Uity to the vicinity of the existing Brush <br />Hollow Resorvoir whore a pumping plant and pipeline would diroct the water <br />into tho resorvoir. The only apparent source of supply for replacement <br />and for supple~ntal irrigation noeds appears to be transmeuntain water <br />from the potential Gunnison_Arkansas Project. <br /> <br />16. The cost of municipal water to t):ce city of Colorado Springs would <br />involvo the following itensl (a) construction cost and probably a shere <br />of the 0&1.1 on the new Skaguay Dan and enlarged Reservoir, (b) construotion <br />cost und O&M of the diversion allm, (c) construction cost and 0&1.1 of the <br />pipeline, (d) 0. proportion of the construction cost and O&:M for the features <br />used jointly for irrigation replace::1Ont and sllPplemntal supplios, and eEl) <br />the uniform basic cost of municipal water from the Gunnison-Arkansas Projeot <br />ut the rate of $20 per acre-foot. <br /> <br />17. Inasmuch as this plan, which would divert 10,300 aore-feet, <br />essentially is an extension of the Upper Beaver Creek Plan, which would <br />divert 2.700 acre-feet, oost estLnates hQve been prepared for the cUl"lll~ <br />tive diversion o~ 13,000 acre-feet. Based upon Q 4O-year mnortizQtion <br />at 2-1/2 peroent interest for allocated construction oosts, an allocated <br />shure of the annual O&M, and the basic charge for projeot water, the cost <br />of nunicipal water to Colorado Springs under this plan is esticoated at <br />14.7 cents per thousand gallons or $48.03 per acre-foot. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />