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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />There are currently 329 water taps on the Dove Creek system within <br />. the town itself. All taps are metered. In addition to the in-town <br />service, there are 16 rural taps. There is also a public water tap <br />from which approximately 250 additional rural families in the Dove Creek <br />area haul domestic water by truck. <br /> <br />PROBLEM <br />During the late summer and fall, the Dolores River is completely <br />depleted at the Dove Creek diversion points by senior upstream decrees. <br />In almost eve~ year the yield of the present water supply is insuffi- <br />cient to meet the requirements of the town, much less those of the <br />adjoining rur~l areas. During those periods, water uses are limited te <br />household use only. Lawn watering, car washing and other outside uses <br />are prohibited during this time. <br />Another major problem with the present system is the high cost. <br />Dove Creek is outside the Dolores River drainage and the water produced <br />from the wells on the Dolores Rive~ must be lifted approximately 1,000 <br />feet vertically in order to get it into the town. The electrical cost <br />alone for this pumping is currently about 21 cents per thousand gallons. <br />This cost will continue to accelere..;:e in the future as energy becomes <br />more expensive. The transmission system from the Dolores River to the <br />town is vulnerable to flooding and was completely destroyed about ten <br />years ago. Until that line was repl~ced, water was supplied to the <br />town by military and private water trucks. <br />The ultimate plan is to abandon the present system and to replace <br />it with a system which will derive its supply from the Dolores Project. <br />This plan will require. the construction of a treatment plant, storage <br />tanks and a new transmission system. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.2- <br />