WSP11361

• File Number: 8449.800
• Description: South Platte Projects - Metropolitan Denver Water Study
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 12/1/1966
• Author: Regional Plan. Com.
• Title: Summary - Metropolitan Water Study Inventory
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

separately, making it impossible to separate the data for each system.

Numerous different methods are used to record and summarize

financial and operating information. For instance, expenditures may be

sub-divided into general categories such as administration, maintenance,

salaries and operation; or may be classified into the functional cate-

gories such as collection, diversion, transmission, treatment, storage

and distribution. It was necessary, therefore, to derive standard

classifications for grouping financial information and to extract from

the available data the necessary information reclassified as appropriate

to correspond to the standard classifications.

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There is a reluctance on the part of most agencies to make avail-

able financial and operating information beyond that which is reported

and published In annual reports. This reluctance applies particularly

to such items as the value of water rights and right-of-way, salary

classifications and operating cost. In general, the compilation of a

meaningful picture of the financial structure and operation would

require a separate valuation study of each entity, which is beyon.d the

scope of the Inventory Report.

The total reported investment in existing water systems in the
Primary area including the value of land and water rights was found to
exceed $245,000,000. Total annual revenues for 26 of the Water Agencies
in the Primary area approximate $23,000,000 with total annual expendi-
tures being on the order of $19,000,000.