WSP10676

• File Number: 8200.766
• Description: Gunnison River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Gunnison-Arkansas - Various Data Regarding Aspen Reservoir Site-Etc
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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Canon City. Tn. future supply to this city will probably reach

3,730 ~cre-feet annually in the year 2000. The supply system that conveys

water from transmountain diversion tunnel portal on Grape Creek will cost

$475,000. This doesnot include the cost of a purification plant or an

addition to the present one. The canstruction oost amortized at 3% for

50 years, would give an annual cost of $18,500 for the pipe line. This

would amount to $4.95 per acre-,foot based on the future water demBlld', On the

present demand it would be CIO.OO per aCre-foot.

Since the present supply is adequate in quantity the allowable

charge would probably be based on the oost of other consumers of water for

irrigation purposes.

The pipe line down the valley from Pueblo v.ould cost apprcximate-

ly ~4,500,000, which, amortized at 3% for 50 years would produoe an annual

oost of $175,000. Based on the delivery of 15,000 acre-feet annually the

cost per acre-foot would be $11.65. A purification pl!llIt would oost $200,000

based on a plant oosting $15,000 per one million gallons per day oapacity.

This figure amortized at 3% for 50 years would be $7,272 annually. Based

on 15,000 ncre-feet delivery the annual cost for acre-foot would be approxi-

mately to. 50. The system would therefore cost approximRte1y $12.00 per

acre-foot for the installation alone. It seems that such a system might be

built, from these figures,' however, the oost to the consumer wou1dbe higher,

than it now is.

Benefi ts from the above system would probably not be greater than

for irrigated lands. However, the towns would be furnished an adequate sup-

ply at 5-1/2 g~ains hardness.