WSP12674

• File Number: 8449.925
• Description: Rueter-Hess Reservoir
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 3/1/1999
• Author: Parker Water & Sanitation
• Title: Rueter-Hess Reservoir Project Description
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Rueter-Hess Reservoir Project De:icription

March 1999

at an approximate stream elevation of 5,900 feet MSL, and would have to be lifted over a high
point at elevation 6,250 ft MSL prior to being released into a tributary which flows into
Rueter-Hess Reservoir (Figure 4).

Once water stored in Rueter-Hess Reservoir is desired to be used, it would be deeanted from
the structure and routed to a water treatment plant located adjacent to the dam (Figure 4). This
water treatment plant would process the water to potable standards, and the water would then
be pumped into the District's distribution system.

Alternatively, Rueter-Hess Reservoir can be used to provide supplemental stream flow,
whereby raw water can be released (to Newlin Gulch), or pumped back to Cherry Creek and
allowed to flow downstream for subsequent use by downstream water users.

OPERATIONAL PLAN

There are several potential sources of water that can be stored in Rueter-Hess Reservoir.
These include both in-basin sources and potential imported water from other basins. In-basin
sources include:

(1)

Diversion of the District's existing tributary Cherry Creek water rights through
alluvial wells;

(2)

Year-round pumping of Denver Basin aquifer water rights;

(3)

Diversion of in-priority Cherry Creek surface flows;

(4)

Diversion of in-priority Newlin Gulch surface flows;

(5)

Re-usable effluent from the District's A WT plant; and

(6)

Irrigation return flows.

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