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~. ~: ~ < ~ 7 4 *'"". Canon City The city has a more difficult problem of securing water .for muni- cipal supply then does Salida. The tresent supply is diverted from the Ar~ kensas River, but the pipe line is in bad condition end will need consider- able repair before it will fUrnish an adequate supply. The future system could COIne from one of two sources. (1) The water oould be allowed to flow down the Arkansas River and diverted as it now is for municipal use.. This plan would necessitate the repair of the present line and the addition of purifioation faoi1ities for future demands. A study of the present system is noVl being made.. An exoerpt from the Pueblo Star-Journal, November 7, 1945, is given belowl "The oity oouncil has voted an appropriation of $1,000 for an en- gineering survey of the Canon City water system, looking toward enlarging and improving the reservoir. "The engineering firm of Ripple and Howe of Denver is employed to make the survey. Ben V. Howe, former State Sanitary Engineer is familiar with the Canon City system, it is stated." (2) The other plan is to obtain water from the transmountain di- version tunnel from the portal on Grape Creek. The water could be taken from the portal at elevation 6,150 and conveyed a distance of 9 miles through a lll" pipe line to a purification plant at elevation 5,500. From here the water could be oonveyed through two 14 inch pipe lines to the city distribu- tion system. One line could be used for the average demand while the other would take oare of the maximum dellJB.nd. The system would be a gravity system costing approximately $475,000. The cost is inoreased by the 4 miles of very rough terrain the line will have to traverse. An estimate of the purifioa- tion plant was not made since the system would require a deta1l~d survey