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<br />Project Description and Purpose <br /> <br />The Dolores Water Conservancy District (DWCD) has worked with residents of <br />the Town of Dove Creek for over 3 years investigating options to provide a more cost <br />effective raw water supply to meet outside irrigation needs. At the present time, like most <br />Colorado communities, Dove Creek residents use an existing treated water supply for <br />outside irrigation needs (lawns, private gardens and landscape). That has been <br />challenging in light of the high cost of treated water supplies (as high as $3.00 per <br />thousand gallons) and pending water restrictions. <br /> <br />The Dove Creek Secondary Water Supply System would utilize the DWCD's <br />M&I water supply, up to 300 acre-feet per year, and deliver that water through a newly <br />constructed pumping plant and pipeline system. The DWCD would construct and operate <br />the new system under an existing Franchise Agreement with the Town of Dover Creek <br />(see attached Franchise Agreement). The delivery system would include a pumping plant, <br />a 5 to 10 acre-foot terminal storage reservoir, 32,000 feet of delivery pipeline, and 307 <br />water taps with meters. <br /> <br />In addition to providing affordable water for outside irrigation needs to the <br />residents of Dove Creek, the project would allow the DWCD to utilize its M&I water <br />supply. At the present time DWCD has a $108 per acre-foot repayment obligation for its <br />M&I water from the Dolores project. <br /> <br />Project Sponsor <br /> <br />The sponsor of the project is the Dolores Water Conservancy District (DWCD) in <br />collaboration with the Town of Dove Creek and a citizens' committee that provides input <br />into the project. Contracting and funding will be managed through the DWCD Water <br />Activity Enterprise, an enterprise fund of the District. The DWCD is the local sponsor of <br />the Dolores Project, a project that provides M&I and irrigation water for Montezuma and <br />Dolores counties in southwest Colorado, including the Dove Creek area. <br /> <br />Project Service Area <br /> <br />The Dove Creek Secondary Water Supply System would serve residents of the <br />Town of Dove Creek, Dolores County, Colorado. There are currently 505 residential and <br />commercial water taps serving Dove Creek. At the present time the design is to serve <br />only the residential customers. However, the system could be expended in the future to <br />serve the commercial water users along the highway corridor running through the town. <br />The initial plan calls for 307 residential taps to be on the system at build-out. <br /> <br />3 <br />