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<br />. <br /> <br />Water and Storage Needs Assessment Study <br /> <br />Presentation Outline <br /> <br />1. Background... <br /> <br />Colorado Springs Demands to District lead to the Storage Study Committee <br />28 water user entities with the nine-county service area of the District <br />CWCB support <br />project engineer GEIIHelton <br /> <br />2. Significant Findings (draft) <br /> <br />a. existing svstems/participant entities---25 M&I entities and 12 ditch companies <br /> <br />M&I - 148,000 afper year <br /> <br />Ag - 825,000 afper year (average '86-'95, <br />including well pumping)-200,000 irrigated acres (water transfers) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />trans-mountain diversions: 132,000 afper year (part ofM&I and Ag) <br /> <br />b. population proiections-base and high projections <br /> <br />"base"-locally established, 50% chance of being exceeded, state <br />demographer benchmark (new state #s increase the "base" #s for 2020 <br />to 1,000,000) <br /> <br />"high"-10cal1yestab1ished, 15% chance of being exceeded <br />state demographer benchmark <br /> <br />BASE: 1997 --620,000 2020 --975,000 <br /> <br />2040 --1,200,000 <br /> <br />. IDGH: 1997 -620,000 2020 --1,070,000 <br /> <br />2040 --1,500,000 <br /> <br />. <br />