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<br />C. Water-efficient industrial and commercial water-using processes: <br />(Continued) <br /> <br />The Board will continue to make recommendations to its customers on ways to <br />reduce their facilities' overall water consumption without affecting manufacturing <br />processes or production levels and will continue in its efforts to stay current with <br />new water saving technologies. <br /> <br />D. Water reuse systems, both potable and nopotable: <br /> <br />The Board of Water Works of Pueblo owns two types of water rights. Pueblo's main <br />supply of water comes from the state decreed water rights that permit it to divert <br />direct (low water from the Arkansas River. The other type of water right owned by <br />the Board is its transmountain water rights. This transmountain water is water <br />that originates on Colorado's western slope and is diverted through or across the <br />Continental Divide to the Arkansas River basin. Pueblo was the one of the first <br />communities in the Arkansas River to apply for and receive a court decree for water <br />exchanges related to these transmountain water rights(State of Colorado Division <br />2 Water Court Decrees). Through these decrees the Board of Water Works of <br />Pueblo receives credit for any of their transmountain water returning to the <br />Arkansas River through the Pueblo Wastewater Treatment Plant and/or the <br />Comanche Power Plant. It also receives credit for its transmountain water leased <br />as agricultural water. The Board claims the right of reuse for all of the leased water <br />that returns to the Arkansas River. This water can be reused as many times as it <br />can be measured and accounted for. This process allows Pueblo multiple reuse of <br />these transmountain water rights. This transmountain return flow water can be <br />moved back"up stream into storage for use at a later date or it can be exchanged <br />directly into Pueblo's North Side Intake for immediate treatment and reuse in <br />Pueblo's Municipal Water System. <br /> <br />In addition to this direct reuse of return flows from surface waters, Pueblo received <br />a court decree for water exchanges related to the return flows from transmountain <br />water used for lawn irrigation. The groundwater underlying the Board of Water <br />Works service area is recharged by lawn irrigation. This water flows underground <br />responding to the physical properties of the aquifer until it reaches the Arkansas <br />River or Fountain Creek(Fountain Creek joins the Arkansas River on the east side <br />of Pueblo). The transmountain portion ofthis lawn irrigation return flow is claimed <br />by the Board of Water Works and is returned up stream for storage or diverted <br />directly from the Arkansas River into the Board's North Side Intake for use in the <br />City of Pueblo. <br /> <br />-8- <br />