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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I JCHA Rueter-Hess Reservoir Proiect Description March 1999 Rueter-Hess Reservoir Water Sources - Rueter-Hess Reservoir water sources include: ./' In-priority Cherry Creek flows. ./' In-priority Cherry Creek alluvial ground water. ./' Advanced wastewater treatment effluent storage. ./' Irrigation return flows. ./' In-priority flow in Newlin Gulch. ./' Pumping Denver Basin aquifer wells. ./' Imported water supplies, including storage of water by Denver Water Board. In addition to obtaining a reservoir site capable of storing up to 55,000 ac.-ft of water, the District also obtained all of the Denver Basin ground water beneath the lands that it has purchased. Given a final surface acreage of about 2,000 acres, the District will have acquired approximately 3,000 ac-ft of water that can be extracted annually from the four principal Denver Basin bedrock aquifers. Since there will be no demands associated with the ground water beneath these undeveloped parcels, this Denver Basin ground water will serve as a supplemental supply to the District's water supply portfolio. There are several ancillary facilities that will also be completed on the reservoir site and between the reservoir site and Cherry Creek to divert Cherry Creek flows into Rueter-Hess Reservoir. Since Rueter-Hess Reservoir will store raw water, a water tre:atment plant is planned near the northeast corner of the reservoir site (Figure 4). This water treatment plant will process raw water from the reservoir, and then deliver these potable supplies into the District's distribution system. Water will be delivered to Rueter-Hess Reservoir from Cherry Creek by a surface-water and a ground-water diversion system. The alluvial wells, diversion structures, pumps, and 5611i.rpt -3-