BOARD02119

• Board Meeting Date: 11/19/2001
• Description: CF Section - Construction Fund New Loans - City of Fountain - Kelton Reservoir Rehabilitation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORl\DO

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denverl Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

Bill Owens
Governor

MEMORANDUM

TO:

Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director
Rod Kuharicn
CWCB Director
Colorado Water Conservation Board Members Dan MeAu!;ffe
~ Deputy Director

Bill Green, P.E., Project Manager ~
Mike Serlet, P.E., Chief, Water Supply Planning and Finance SectwJ1 (

November 16, 2001 1';

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SUBJECT:

Agenda Item 22c., November 19-20, 2001 Board Meeting - Water
Supply Planning and Finance - Construction Fund New Loans - City
of Fountain - Keeton Reservoir Rehabilitation

Introduction

The City of Fountain (the City), acting by and through its water enterprise fund, is
applying for a Construction Fund loan of $420,000 for the rehabilitation of the City's
Keeton Reservoir. Please see the attached project summary and map.

Backl!:round

Keeton Reservoir is located on Little Fountain Creek about six miles south of Colorado
Springs and one-half mile west of Highway 115 near Fort Carson in EI Paso County. The
City owns the dam site.

The reservoir had an original capacity of about 20 acre-feet and has been used as a source
of augmentation water for the City of Fountain. Water is piped from below the reservoir
for several miles to Fountain Creek to be used to offset depletions from four City-owned
wells in the Fountain Creek alluvium. The water rights used for that purpose are the most
senior on Little Fountain Creek.

The dam was built in 1935 and is a small earth-fill structure with a service spillway on
the north abutment and an emergency spillway on the south abutment. The emergency
spillway is the main subject of the rehabilitation project.

The State Engineer's staff inspected the dam in July 1997. The resulting inspection report
indicates that the dam would be reclassified from a low- to moderate- or high-hazard
structure because of several homes located immediately below the dam.

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning

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