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<br />Mr. Westesen: If there are no further questions, Jim Austin repre- <br />senting the city of Montrose has asked to sh~re some of our time. <br />And with your permission I will turn it over to him for a few minutes. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: All right. Mr. Austin. <br /> <br />Mr. Austin: Mr. Chairman, members <br />the question that was asked here. <br />there are enough copies of it. <br /> <br />of the board. I want to just answer <br />I have a statement, I am not sure <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Westesen: Thank you very much. <br /> <br />We currently supply all of the water to the rural area around Montrose. <br />The figures on the consumption a year I think that will help to <br />satisfy some of the questions about the customers. At the present <br />time. our water consumption is going up at an incredible rate. The <br />water consumption has gone up 31% for the city of Montrose in the <br />last three years from approximately 700 million gallons to a billion, <br />three million gallons. And much of that consumption is due to the <br />increased consumption in the rural areas. Our problems are twofold. <br />The winter supply is tied to some small storage reservoirs on the <br />hill that have corne within 16% of being inadequate this year. Our <br />summer supply problems are tied to a treatment plant. In answer to <br />your question about the Gunnison River, we draw some water from the <br />Gunnison at the present time. We draw a limited amount that we have <br />a right to. <br /> <br />The Dallas would seem the most reasonable and probably the only fea- <br />sible source of water. At the present time. the city is prepared to <br />buy as much water as we reasonably can afford. We are committed to <br />5,000 acre-feet now and I think it is going to go to 10,000 that we <br />will ask for. <br /> <br />With that. I will try to answer any questions you might have. Our <br />data is a bit inaccurate in the sense that our consumption figures <br />are going up at a rate that we didn't anticipate when the last water <br />st~4Y was done for the city of Montrose. So we don't know where it <br />is_gQ,;lJl,g ;1:;0 go in the next few years. But we do know that our rural <br />consumption is increasing constantly. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: Jim. you might point out that two other small rural com- <br />panies buy water for about 700 taps and they are hitting capacity <br />also. <br /> <br />Mr. Austin: We had 1.435 taps on the Tri-County system that Harold <br /> <br />-25- <br />