BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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and this' provides for continuity in administer-
ing the department's policies.

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The Board of Water commissioners, of
course, sets the policies with respect to
developing its water supplies, involving among
other things, the water rights, the assurance
of an adequate water yield to meet the needs
of the community.' This involves both short
and long range programming with particular
emphasis on the long range planning as I will
note later. It involves the development of
distribution systems, treatment systems, the
development of a marketing pattern;'andthe
maintaining of this system. I think the last
item is particularly important because without
adequate policy for maintaining an extensive
system it is difficult to meet the objectives
that are required of the Denver Water Board.

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They started with a small beginning almost
at the beginning of the century and today have
developed to the point where they are serving
approximately 800,000 people in the community.

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I have been asked to review the future
plans of the Water Department as far as fur-
nishing water to Denver. 'I think a brief
review of our present system would be in
order and I'll make it brief. This involves
the source of supply which includes majo~
storage facilities; it involves the treatment
system: it involves the distribution trans-'
mission: marketing, billing and collection
systems of the Department.

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Now the source of supply, namely of our
water system, is the dramatic features that
we have. It involves the rivers, reservoirs,
the tunnels, the conduits, the mountalns, the
outdoors where we can all see what is going on.

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Now let's examine the charts that have
been flashed on the screen showing the various
facets of this water system. First is the