BOARD01732

• Board Meeting Date: 3/20/1974
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

2.l million that we can actually affect by this project. Then this
2.l million population was distributed among the service entities, the
areas that they feel that they could serve. The Denver Water Board,
of course, serving the most area, the city of Aurora, and in the sup-
plemental systems are some of the smaller outlying systems that we
added all together there.

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(slide) Now as you recall, I mentioned there was a management plan. The
management plan was to develop the river in the South Platte canyon
with no storage facilities. Okay, if that's the case, we still have to
meet this M & I demand that we project. This is a graph showing the
attempt to meet this demand. There are two things you can do. You can
either increase the supply or you can reduce the demand. And here we
are attempting to show both. The graph is a little bit out of pro-
portion as you can see. We started at 300,000 acre-feet in the base
supply. So there is a lot more water below the graph there. At any
rate, we identifed certain things that could be done that would increase
the supply. A possibility of a few water rights on the upper South
Platte area not being utilized for M & I, the successive use - this we
define as using water coming in above Denver, holding it up and using
it in the city's system and meeting the downstream rights on the river
through the sewage effluent coming down the lower end of Denver. We
feel that it cannot be any much more than about 30,000 acre-feet that
we are showing there, without some kind of storage facilities above
Denver to regulate it. The possibility of some more ground water
development in the area and the possibility of some recycling out into
the future. This is a little hazy because of the technological situation
with recycling. At the present, BPA says that recycled water cannot
be used as drinking water, and I don't know how long this will be in
effect. So there are some technological problems in this area.

On the other end, we can reduce demand. One way would be the metering
of the Denver system. They have a certain number of taps that are
still unmetered, and such things as system improvements. cutting down
on some of the leakages, educational program, some of these things.
So the two work together, but as you can see, we still come up with a
very substantial shortage.

(slide) This is a picture of a map that is on the wall there. showing I
the three alternative sites that we are looking at - the West Plum
Cre~t site, over on West Plum about three miles south of Sedalia. Of
course, the Two Forks site, and the Ferndale site, which is near the
little community of Ferndale, just downstream from the Buffalo Creek.
That is the general area map of the three sites.

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