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<br />Town of New Castle - Colorado River 0Iversl0n <br />July 28-29, 2003 <br /> <br />Aoenda Item 211 <br /> <br />Water Project Construction Loan Program-Project Data <br /> <br />Borrower: <br /> <br />Town of New Castle <br /> <br />County: Garfield <br />Project Type: New Raw Water Intake/Pipeline <br /> <br />Project Name: Colorado River Diversion <br /> <br />Drainage Basin: Colorado River <br /> <br />Water Source: Colorado River <br /> <br />Total Project Cost: $1.006,900 <br /> <br />Funding Sources: CWCB, WQCO. New Castle <br /> <br />Type of Borrower: Municipal (High-Income) <br /> <br />Aver. Delivery: 400 acre-feet <br /> <br />CWCB Small Project Loan: $700.000 <br /> <br />Interest Rate: 4.5% Term: 30 years <br /> <br />The Town of New Castle is applying for a loan to construct a new diversion structure and pump station <br />on the Colorado River, and a raw water pipeline to the Town's existing water treatment facility. <br />Currently the Town's sole source of water supply is a diversion structure on East Elk Creek, about 3 <br />miles north of town. The Town's water supply is vulnerable to downstream senior water calls, as well <br />as potential water quality problems due to sediment and ash runoff from forest fire hazard, as was <br />experienced in 2002. The proposed project is to construct a small diversion structure on the Colorado <br />River, with gravity flow to a pump station on the south side of 1-70. From there water would be pumped <br />to a sedimentation pond on the north side of 1-70, and a second pump station would be used to lift the <br />water to the treatment plant, an elevation increase of about 250 vertical feet. A 12" PVC waterline, <br />8750 feet in length, would be constructed from the pump station to the treatment plant. The general <br />pipeline alignment would be initialty along Elk Creek, then fOllolNing the Town street rightooQf-way for <br />Midland Avenue, and then along County Road 245 to the water treatment plant The system would be <br />designed to pump 1800 gpm, and each pump station would have two pumps plus one back-up pump. <br />The project will provide the Town with a reliable alternate water source during times when diversion <br />from East Elk Creek is prohibited by either water rights administration or poor water quality. <br /> <br /> <br />Location Map <br />