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The water conservation plan must then be adopted and made publicly available. We must then begin to implement the plan. Future changes can be adopted at anytime. However, if changes are major, we must give public notice, make changes available in draft form, and provide the public opportunity to comment on changes before they can be adopted. SECTION 2. INVENTORY 2.1 Water Supply Sources/Storage The City of Canon City's water supply source is 100 percent surface water coming from various water rights of the Arkansas River. There is 26.18 cfs available at the Low Head Dam on the River and 11.5 cfs available from the Canon City Hydraulic and Irrigation Ditch Company ditch; both being located at the western end of town near the water treatment plant. Standard Operating Procedure is to pump water from the Low Head Dam to a large settling pond called Pond "AU which has a capacity of approximately 46 Million Gallons. This allows time for settling of suspended solids before the treatment process, and up to 4 days of raw water for protection against pollution in the Arkansas River during periods of peak demand. For stand-by and emergency purposes, water may be taken directly from the Hydraulic Ditch to the Treatment Plant without the benefit of the settling time. Availability of all treatable city water rights are as follows: Source cfs Maximum gallons per 24 hour period Maximum gallons per year At Low Head Dam: Hydraulic Ditch 19.0 12,280,023 Old Canon Water Works 2.5 1,615,793 -- ~-------~---------- --- - ------~------ ----- F. Mayol Ditch 4.68 At Ditch: Hydraulic Ditch 3,024,764 * 4,482,208,395 589,764,263 --------- -----"-- 117,306,360 TOTALS: 37.68 7.432.646 24,353,226 2.712.915.608 7,902,194,626 11.5 * Limited to seasonal take out from 4/15 to 10/15, and further limited to a maximum of 360 acre feet in anyone season. Limited to 38.78 days per season at 3,024,764 gallons per day maximum. 2