Projected Planning Study Waterworks Facilities: City of Loveland, Colorado

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However, in the West and particularly in small, but well- established cities, the population rise has been known to accelerate at an astounding rate. This phenomenon is undoubtedly due to the national trend toward industrial decen- tralization and to the availability of building space in this area. Practi- cally every western community having adequate facilities has experienced a growth of consequence in the past ten years. Obviously, those towns and cities which have adequate municipal utilities (or are prepared to provide them as needed) will be the fastest growing. Land development for residential building in Loveland is at an all -time high. It would appear that homes will be available for the anticipated influx of population. This need will be satisfied, with some guidance from the city, by local builders with private capital. However, the provision of municipal facilities to these homes and their inhabitants becomes a city problem and an extremely important one. The subject of this report, water, is but one of these facilities necessary to satisfy the needs of a growing municipality such as Loveland. We have endeavored to get the best information possible with regard to the anticipated growth of Loveland. A study recently developed by the Industrial Economic Division of the Denver Research Institute estimates the 1970 population of the Loveland urbanized area to be 12,000, of which 1,500 would be living outside the corporate limits of the city, if Hewlett-Packard did not complete their plans for a new plant. If such a plant was built and expanded as expected, the 1970 population of the same area would be 20,100 with approximately the same number living outside the corporate limits. Several other estimates from reliable sources range from a population of 20,000 in five years to the same number in twenty -five years. - 4 -