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

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INTRODucrION

In July, 1964, the Inter-County Regional Planning Commission

(ICRPC) commissioned Tipton and Kalmbach, Inc., and W. W. Wheeler and

Associates to compile an inventory of raw water resources, physical

facilities, and cost of water for municipal purposes within the con-

tiguous Denver urban area, and to make a general inventory of water

resources 1n a regional area including the Upper South Platte River

Basin and those areas of the Continental Divide which presently or

potentially can supply \'iater to the metropolitan area. The results of

the inventory were submitted to the ICRPC in a two volume report in

May, 1965.

This report is a sUITmlary of the data presented in the original

Inventory Report. Subsequent to publication of the original report, the

Consultants were commissioned to collect data reflecting changes which

occurred in the intervening period. This data was obtained as described

in Appendix C.

The need for the Metropolitan Water Study derives from the close

relationship that exists between commLmi ty growth and water service.

The study 1S as closely related to concern over continued economic

growth in the Denver area as it 1S to apprehensions of possible water

shortages. Three major considerations cause this concern: