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<br />Appendix No.1 - Response to Part A, Item 5 <br />CWCS Construction Fund Loan Application <br /> <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />4. Transmission and Distribution. There is approximately 15 miles of <br />12, 8 and 6 inch transmission and distribution water line. About 2,500 feet of <br />this system currently is formed of wood stave pipe. The balance is ductile iron <br />pipe. All remaining wood stave pipe will be changed to ductile iron pipe as part <br />of the Water System Upgrade project planned and financed. Work will be <br />completed in the summer of 1996. <br /> <br />B. Existing Operational or Maintenance Problems: <br /> <br />The Town of Minturn Water Supply System presently is not experiencing <br />any operational or maintenance problems. It does anticipate that shortly it will <br />not be able to supply winter demands unless surface storage is developed with <br />sufficient capacity to make up shortfall in Cross Creek low winter flows. <br /> <br />Recently the buyout of the Southern Pacific Railroad by Union Pacific <br />Railroad has accelerated the likelihood that this will be a problem in the very <br />near future. The railroad owns a piece of property in town, a large switch yard, <br />that they probably will develop or sell off to a developer. The domestic water <br />demands for this parcel could equal or exceed the present capacity of the <br />Town's water system. The Town owns sufficient water rights on Cross Creek to <br />meet all demands. The Town's water rights are about four or five times its <br />present use, but to be effectively used, it must be developed with this proposed <br />project. <br />