BOARD00185 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2007
• Description: Intrastate Water Management and Development Section - Water Supply Reserve Account Applications for Grants
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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The water project RMWSD is proposing will not only address the deficiencies of the water system, but also .
allow for the expansion of the water system. The project ipcludes drilling a new water supply well with a
new pump, electrical supply, treatment building and equipment, and chlorine contact chamber. In addition,
the District will install a new water distribution main from the well site to the existing system which will
create a new water pressure zone in Silver Cliff with a variable frequency booster pump station, and a
generator back up and electrical supply, add new water line looping and finally, purchase and install an
additional water storage tank. '

Due to the extensive costs to complete this project and limited funding ability of the District, RMWSD will
accomplish these goals in two phases. The Phase 1 will include the new well, including electrical supply,
treatment building and equipment, chlorine contact chamber, distribution main, booster pump station, back
up generator and some looping. Phase 2 will include the purchase and installation of an additional water
storage tank, distribution main and additional mains and looping.

Following is a description of the goals of this project and how and when they will be accomplished

1. Increase water system production capacity by 250 g.p.m.
a. Drill new production well at Gallery Site.,
b. Test water production & water quality. I
c. Install 3-phase power & production well pump.

2. Design treatment system and obtain CDPHE syst~m approval.

3. Install new treatment capacity ready for connection to distribution system.
a. Treatment building.
b. Chlorine gas treatment system.
c. Chlorine contact chamber.

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Discussion:

The Applicant has done an excellent job summarizing the needs of the District and the benefits which this
grant will provide and has tied these back to the needs of the basin and findings of the Statewide Water
Supply Initiative (SWSI). A few select excerpts are provided below:

Article 75 refers to developing a basin-wide consumptive and nonconsumptive water supply needs
assessment, conduct an analysis of available unappropriated waters within the basin, and propose projects or
methods, both structural and nonstructural for meeting those needs and utilizing those unappropriated waters
were appropriate... "It took close to six years of engineering ,and water court and legal battles for RMWSD
to get the appropriated water it needed, but what we don not have and need is a system to get the
appropriated water to its users."

The (SWSI) Report contains Water Management Objectives and Related Basin Roundtable Comments.
Many of those objectives and comments relate to RMWSD's project.

One objective was to sustainably meet municipal and industrial and agricultural demands. Arkansas Basin
commented that the lack of reliable municipal and industrial supply could impact population and tax base.
RMWSD's project addresses improving municipal water supply. With the proposed improvements, RMWSD
can effectively and efficiently supply water to its existing district population, and provide for future .
expansion, thereby allowing for growth and an increase in the tax base of the community.

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