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TREATMENT FACILITIES AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. Built in 1994, the Applicant's Treatment can utilize both of our water sources: ground water from the Park Center Well, and surface water, or water rights purchased and leased in the Canon Heights Irrigation and Reservoir Company. The surface water originates on the back side of Pikes Peak, in Teller County, and flows into Pisgah Reservoir or directly into Fourmile Creek. Raw water flows into the irrigation canal through a master headgate to an open channel until it reaches the Park Center headgate and weir. Water is then deposited in Applicants pre-treatment reservoir. Well water is also deposited into the pre-treatment reservoir to rid the water of its high CO2 content, although it can be piped directly into the treatment plant if contamination of the reservoir or ditch ever occurred. The two sources can be used alone or simultaneously, which lends great flexibility to the system. In order to control algae growth and in a relatively shallow but healthy reservoir, a Solarbee solar powered circulator/mixer continually stirs the stratified water, improving DO and pH levels, and eliminating the need for chemical algae control. When using both sources concurrently, the circulator is instrumental in mixing the sources to limit striations of warm well water over the colder surface water. The reservoir outlet allows for shallow or deep draw-off and discharges gravity flow into the water treatment plant. The state-of--the-art conical clarification plant uses a process which combines particle removal through coagulation/flocculation with hardness precipitation, using alime/soda ash softening in acone-shaped reactor. These chemicals react with hardness particulates and the reactants precipitate out of solution and are removed. A helical flow pattern at the base of the clarifier generates agitation and contact time for coagulation. Water rises to the top of the cone through a chemical sludge blanket, coagulated particles collide and form larger particles in the upflow currents and are captured by the sludge blanket and removed through straining. Clarified water is collected in a perimeter trough and drop box at the top of the cone where the pH is monitored and adjusted and the water is piped into three media filters. A backwash cycle is automatically initiated according to head loss or run time to keep the filters clean. The treatment plant has a rated capacitymf 1 million gallons per day, or the maximum flow from the BLM well. Flows into the plant are controlled by an automated actuator valve on the raw water pipe and flows are set from the plant SCADA system. All chemical additions, including chlorine are constantly monitored and automatically adjusted by the computerized system. Finished water then flows into the clearwell and is pumped to the distribution system or into one of our storage facilities. Applicant has 1,750,000 gallons of finished water storage. Automatic storage level sensors in the storage tanks prevent operation of the high service pumps when the tanks are above a high water set point and the treatment plant will automatically shut down. A low water set point also triggers the automatic starting of the