WSP11305

• 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: 7/31/1978
• Author: Army Corps of Eng
• Title: Foothills Project-Foothills Newsletter 1
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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from the Missouri River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers P.O. Box 103 Downtown Station, Omaha NE 6810
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jl July 1978

THE REVIEW PROCEDURE TO BE USED by the Army Corps of Engineers' Missouri River
Division in processing the permit application for Strontia Springs Dam and Foothills
Treatment Plant has been developed.

Denver Water Board and Environmental Protection Agency representatives approved
the procedure at a July 24 meeting in Omaha. The officials, together with Bob Drake
of Congressman Tim Wirth's office, met at the invitation of Brig. Gen. William E.
Read, Missouri River Division Engineer. The General is reviewing the application
since its referral to him in late June by his Omaha District Engineer.

The final form of the review document is the following:

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FOOTHILLS REVIEW PROCEDURE OUTLINE

In reviewing the Denver Water Board's
application for a Section 404 permit to
construct Strontia Springs Dam and the
Foothills treatment plant, the Missouri
River Division is assessing the public
interests concerning the project. We
have identified three issues as key:
need for additional water treatment;
existence of superior alternatives;
and severity of environmental, social,
and economic impacts, whether direct or
indirect.

The question of need we propose to
examine from two standpoints: when will
a 125 million 9allons per day (mgd)
project need to be added to the Denver
system to relieve a potential shortage of

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water, and is the type of expansion pro-
posed a cost effective measure to upgrade
system operation.

In planning to meet future demand for
a utility such as water or electricity,
the customary first step is an examina-
tion of historic patterns of use. His-
torically, Denver's water use has grown.
This growth in water use has stemmed
from two factors: a population growth
above the national average and a slight
annual growth (0.2%) in per capita use
of water. The issue of water shortage
arises from efforts by'various interests
to predict the future upon the basis of
the past. Assumptions concerning
population growth may be dis uted and
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