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<br />. 0t(18/1996 15:28 <br />j ,"- <br /> <br />9708274049 <br /> <br />MINTURN <br /> <br />PAGE 92 <br /> <br /> <br />TOWN OF MINTURN <br /> <br />Box 309 (302 Pine Street) <br />MInturn, Colorado 81645-0309 <br />303-827-5645 Fax: 827-5545 <br /> <br />Thursday, January 1 a, 1996 <br /> <br />Daries LIle, Director <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, eo 8 <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Lile: <br /> <br />The Town of Minturn has applied for a $360,000 loan from ewes to <br />acquire and rehabilitate the Bolts Lake dam just south of town. We are on the <br />Board agenda for the January 24 meeting. This project is environmentally and <br />engineeringly sound and should benefit all groups. In particular, the project will <br />improve minimum stream flows, a concern of CWeB. <br /> <br />In preparation for this CWCS hearing, we have been working with Mr. Bill <br />Green on our application. A question has come up since the submission of our <br />final Prefeasibility Study regarding CWCS's minimum stream flows rights and <br />how this project will affect those rights. We have re-examined our project in <br />regard to ewes's minimum stream flows on Cross Creek. I am confident that <br />the Bolts Lake Project will In no way degrade those stream flows. Storing water <br />during flood runoff for release during low flow periods can do nothing but <br />improve the minimum stream flows on Cross Creek and the Eagle River. <br /> <br />As you know, Bolts Lake is an off-stream reservoir constructed at the turn <br />of the century. It is uniquely situated to provide water storage for some of the <br />Town's municipal water rights. Now, during years of low winter flow, we are <br />forced to draw down the natural stream flow to meet the town's domestic water <br />demand. We are aware of the need to conserve water and we are actively <br />pursuing a water conservation program as one means to satisfy growing <br />demands. Even so, we face times when we take almost all of the Cross Creek <br />flow to meet demand. A strong conservation program coupled with an off stream <br />storage reservoir should improve this situation. Acute problems only occur once <br />ever five or ten years and with Bolts Lake we will have the means to ensure that <br />greater minimum stream flows are passed downstream from our diversion point <br />during these otherwise low flow periods. <br />