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<br />002432 <br /> <br />!.SED - JUNE 1942 <br /> <br />RE <br /> <br />DISPOSAL OF WATER USED FOR I~fDUSTRIAL PURPOSES <br />STEEL PLANT OF C. F. & 1. CORP., PUEBLO, COLO. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />The follo,ring analyses of the records of the ITater Department <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation have been made by the Engineer- <br /> <br />ing Department of the Colorado ~ater Conservation Board, C. L. Patterson, <br /> <br />Chief Engineer, in order to ascertain information concerning the disposal <br /> <br />of water incident to its industrial utilization, as in the steel plant <br /> <br />of the corporation near Pueblo, Colorado. <br /> <br />Records of the Water Department of the corporation were made <br /> <br />available through the courtesy of Attorney Fred Farrar, Counsel for the <br /> <br />Corporation, and Zngineer H. H. Christy of tho '"later Department. <br /> <br />The principal source of vmter supply is the Arkansas River, from <br /> <br />whence diversions are made via the Arkansas Valley Conduit (A.V.C .). This <br /> <br />canal is ep proximately 38.5 miles in length, most of which is an earth <br /> <br />section. However the A.V.C. includes 26 siphons with an aggregate length <br /> <br />of 39,000 feet; covered sections aggregating 1,129 feet; culverts 95 feet <br /> <br />long; concrete line sections totalling 17,739 feet; wood sections 1,868 <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />feet in length; flumes l,OBl feet in length; and tunnels aggregating 5,873 <br /> <br />feet. Much of the construction is alonG steep side hills of clay and <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />shale and is complicated by rim-rocks of lime stone. Maintenance is <br /> <br />difficult and disruption of service is frequent, due to slidin~ hills <br /> <br />and freezing of siphons. <br /> <br />(a) <br />