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Parker Water&Sanitation District Agenda Item 30c <br /> May 9,2014(Updated May 23,2014) <br /> Page 5 of 7 <br /> The District is a party to a Service Agreement with the Town of Parker, Colorado, Cherry Creek South <br /> Metropolitan District No. 1, Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District No. 2, and Stroh Ranch <br /> Development Limited Partnership. <br /> Average day water demand is approximately 5.5 million gallons. As of December 2013 the District <br /> served a total of 13,744 accounts representing a total of 17,403 Single Family Equivalents (SFEs). In <br /> 2013, the District provided 5,965 acre-feet in water sales to its users. <br /> User service charges are utilized to meet the operation and maintenance expenses of the water and <br /> sanitary sewer system. <br /> Water Rights <br /> The District currently has 46 wells from which it may divert its decreed water rights. The District <br /> currently has, by decree, the right to withdraw approximately 25,000 acre-feet of water per year from <br /> the Denver basin aquifer and nearly 15,500 acre-feet per year of consumptive use water from the <br /> Cherry Creek alluvium at build out. The Colorado Water Court has approved an augmentation plan <br /> that increases the District's rights by approximately 8,000 acre-feet per year. <br /> The District also owns 13 farms in Logan County that encompass approximately 4,665 acres, 2,765 <br /> acres of which have been historically irrigated. The historically-irrigated lands on the District farms <br /> can produce approximately 5,000 ac-ft/yr of senior, fully-consumable water. In addition to senior <br /> surface water rights, the District also owns 24 irrigation wells, that can produce approximately 45 <br /> cubic feet per second, operating pursuant to the Lower Logan Water Users Association augmentation <br /> plan, making these junior well water rights reliable. The District also owns storage in Prewitt Reservoir <br /> that provides supplemental irrigation water to the irrigated lands on District farms. The water <br /> associated with the farms is available for the District's future use as a reliable and renewable water <br /> supply. <br /> Borrower's Participation <br /> Parker has subscribed to 1,200 acre-feet of water on an average annual basis through the WISE Project. <br /> The District expects that in average and wet years, when WISE is delivering an average yield, close to <br /> 100% of the District's water supply will come from renewable sources. In dry years, the loss in water <br /> deliveries from renewable sources will be made up through pumping additional non-tributary ground <br /> water, water from aquifer storage, or from Rueter-Hess Reservoir. <br /> Parker will take the lead on construction of 20,300 feet of new 42-inch pipeline from near the <br /> intersection of Chambers Road and E-470 to the Parker Water Treatment Plant located just south of <br /> Rueter-Hess Reservoir. Southward from the treatment plant a 16.5 million gallons per day pumping <br /> station will be constructed, followed by 9,000 feet of new 24-inch pipe that will allow WISE water to <br /> be conveyed to Rueter-Hess Reservoir for storage. Parker's facilities will be oversized for use by other <br /> WISE Authority members. <br /> The estimated total project cost for all of the WISE Project components is $147.5M. The amount that <br /> each WISE Authority member is required to pay depends on the amount of water each WISE Authority <br /> member has committed to taking, as well as the amount of local infrastructure that must be constructed <br /> to deliver each member's WISE water. The District's funding is shown in Table 3. <br />