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<br />. <br /> <br />Section 1. Background <br /> <br />The City of Lafayette provides potable water service to the residents (pop. approx. 20,000) of the <br />City of Lafayette as well as approximately 300 homes outside the city limits. We also provide <br />sewage collection and treatment service to the residents of the City. A few structures in the city <br />limits are not served by one or the other utility. The City serves approximately 12,700 single <br />family equivalents '(using 2.31 person per home; 100 gpcpd). The City expects demands to <br />increase by 50% at the City full build out (pop. 30,000). <br /> <br />The City receives its water from the South Boulder Creek and Boulder Creek. The water is used <br />directly from one of the ditches or is stored in one of three reservoirs - Baseline, Waneka and <br />Goose Haven, and is treated at the Baseline Water Treatment Plant. <br /> <br />To optimize the City raw water system the City has constructed a pump station that will take <br />water out of Coal Creek and irrigate the landscaping on U.S. Hwy 287. The water exchanges <br />credits from our WWTP upstream to the pump station diversion. <br /> <br />The City has the water rights and a tentative design for a pipeline between the Waste Water <br />Treatment Plant and the raw water supply pipe, This would maximize the full use of return flows <br />from the WWTP back to the water system. <br /> <br />Water use efficiency has traditionally been very important to the City of Lafayette. Theinverted <br />rate structure was implemented during a period when a water shortage existed to deter waste and <br />has been effective. <br /> <br />-1- <br />