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 Proiect Description

March 1999

(A WT) process, in-priority Newlin Gulch surface flows, and pumping of Denver Basin aquifer
water.

Management of these water resources by reservoir operations may include providing carryover
storage to continue to provide yields in dry years, serving as a water supply for subsequent
bedrock aquifer injection, providing a means to get an increased benefit from low-yielding
Denver Basin aquifer wells which can be pumped to the reservoir on a year--round basis and
then used as peaking water during the summertime demand period, and storing A WT effluent
on a year-round basis, then using this water to satisfy peak summertime demands.

RESERVOIR SITE

The Rueter-Hess Dam axis crosses the section line between Sections 30 and 31 of Township
6 South, Range 66 West, approximately three miles southwest of the downtown Parker,
Colorado, area (Figure 1). The reservoir site is located on Newlin Gulch, a trilbutary drainage
to Cherry Creek that encompasses approximately 20 square miles upstream of the proposed
dam axis. As such, the proposed dam may provide some flood regulation function.

This reservoir site can accommodate an approximate 10,000 acre-foot (ac-ft) reservoir that
could be used solely to meet the needs of the District (Figure 2), and it can be expanded to a
maximum capacity of approximately 55,000 ac-ft to be used as a regional water supply facility
(Figure 3).

The District has currently purchased 1,882 acres which includes the dam axis, as well as most
of the maximum reservoir area. The District is planning to obtain additional acreage to
complete the site acquisition for the dam and the maximum reservoir capacity (Figure 3).

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