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~~" ~::~;;~ <br />~ <br />Ramsey L. Kropf" <br />shareholder <br />kropfC~waterlaw.com <br />reply tv Aspen oftice <br />~"licensed in .Al. C::C), N'Y <br />PATRICK I MILLER I KROPF <br />Attorneys at Law www.waterlaw.com <br />Apri128, 2009 <br />~r#ECEtVED <br />Mr. Kirk Russell q p~ 2 g 2009 <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />1580 Logan St., Suite 750 ~-oradoWater <br />Denver, CO 80203 ~BNAtiOR BOafd <br />Via Email and US Mail <br />RE: CWCB Loan Application and Feasibility Study, Update (our file #37D2) <br />Dear Kirk: <br />Thank you for your time last week in our telephone call. As we discussed, we are <br />attaching some additional information for our loan application and feasibility study. <br />1. No Loan with CWCB Currentlv. You are correct; please revise the <br /> application to show that Gypsum does not have an existing loan with <br /> CWCB. The only outstanding loan for the Water Enterprise Fund is <br /> actually with Colorado Water Resources and Power Development <br /> Authority (CWRPDA), with a principal balance of $300,000. Gypsum <br />c~ft~ paid off its 1995 General Obligation Refunding Bonds in March 2009. <br />~__~ <br />~~: <br />730 E. Durant Avenue <br />su~~e Zoo 2. Average Monthly Water Use per Household. The average monthly water <br />Aspen, CO 81611 use per household is approximately 15,969 gallons per tap per month <br />T.9~o.92o.io2e (based on a simple annual average, not seasonally adjusted). Gypsum's <br />F. 970.925.6847 water treatment facility records indicate approximately 1,200 acre feet per <br />U~~<<~~~ ot~i~~: year for retail water, and there are approxirriately 2038 water taps <br />999 18th Street (generally one tap per household). This translates into 0.59 af/tap/year <br />30th Flonr (192,281 gallons per tap annually), and 0.049 af/tap/month (15969 gallons <br />Denver, co aozo~ per tap per month). Gypsum's recent figures show estimated overall <br />'t`.303.893.9~0o wintertime treatment to be around 10,600 gaUtap/mo...the additional <br />F.303.893J900 5,330 gaUtap/month accounts for landscape irrigation during summer <br /> months, for an approximate average irrigation of about 3,400 square feet <br />I'h~~enix C)fticc; <br />per tap <br />2415 B. Camelback . <br />Suice 700 <br />Phoenix, AZ 85016 3. CWCB Water Conservation Plan Not Required. Gypsum is not subject to <br />~t'. ~~0.921.4044 the formal water conservation plan, because it delivers retail water of <br />E~480.921.86~8 approximately 1,200 acre feet per year, and additional irrigation <br />obligations from LEDE Reservoir only increase this to 1,300 acre feet per <br />'r~is, i>tt;«: year. Please see the attached Memorandum from Zancanella & <br />7633 E. 63rd Place <br />su;t~ 3oo-ia Associates, the Town's water engineering consultants, who track the <br />, ox ~~i3s Town's water treatment use records and provide water use accounting to <br />.459.4634 the state. We also note that Gypsum has conservation requirements in its <br />t', 970.925.68~7 <br />a prd~esslone! corporation <br />W:\GYPSUMl37 D2 LEDE Reservoir~Documents\CWCB FeasStudy&Appx~RL,K Cover Letter to CWCB 4-28-09.doc <br />