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11) While the application and decree for Old Dillon Reservoir First Enlargement (Case No. 93CW288) clearly describes a 150 acre-foot enlargement there may be different interpretations of how the rights decreed in Case No. 93CW288 can be stored in the Old Di11on Reservoir First Enlargement. The River District leaves these legal issues to be resolved by Summit County and the towns. The objectives of the parties must be clearly defined before ways of ineeting those objectives can be described and evaluated. 2.2 Project Sponsor The project sponsor is the Town of Dillon, Colorado. The Town was incorpoxated on January 26, 1883. The Town of Dillon has moved three times with the final move in 1956 when the DenveY Water Board began the pYOCess of building the dam. The residents moved to Dillon's final location on the shores o£ Dillon Reservoir in 1961. Dillon is located south of InteYState 70, 70 miles west of Denver in Suinmit County. Dillon is a small community with a population just oveY 800. Eighty percent (80%) of the housing units ~e second homes which incxeases the population to appro~mately 5,000 in the peak seasons. The service area is the Town boundaxies with two exceptions for providing watex service to locations just outside the Town limits: the United States Forest Service pxoperty on County Road 51 and the Town of Silverthorne attainable housing project on West Anemone (see 1-Ylater Seruice Area, Exhibit L). The total customer base of 428 is a mix of xesidential, multi-family xesidenrial and commexcial uses. The cuxrent water usage is approximately.99 ~ lion gallons =~d°~ ~a~ per yeaY based on 2008 usage. The capacity in the state of the art watex membrane treatment plant is 547.5 inillion gallons peY year. Revenues are provided fxom customers through the monthly volume chaxge and monthly capital fee. The 2009 xates are as follows: ,~~ cp~po~ .X ~~~ a~ Monthly Volume Chaxge $17.00 per EQR •~' Monthly Capital Fee $ 3.00 per 1,000 gallons for usage 15,000 gallons and less $ 4.50 pex 1,000 gallons for usage over 16,000 gallons One EQR is equivalent to a three bedroom, three bathroom single family home. An EQR schedule deteYxnines the number of EQRS foY other uses (see EQK Schedule, Exhibit MJ. The Town is limited in growth by the capacity in the sewer treatment plant of 2,100 EQRs. The Town currently has 1,695 EQRs on line or 81% of buildout capacity. Tap fees are also collected for new construction, remodels and change of uses that affect the numbex of EQRs associated with the pxopeYty. The 2009 water tap fee rate is $7,000 per EQR. The Town's main souxce of raw water comes fxom Straight Creek. This souYCe is highly susceptible to contamination from forest fires and hazardous materials from I 70. The water is diverted fYOm the creek approximately one mile upstream from the watex plant. The Town's watex system is comprised of a 1.5 MGD microfiltration treatment plant, two water storage tanks totaling 0.9 MG of treated storage, gravity fed distribution system, and an emergency connect with two suYxounding communities. 7