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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: Are there other comments or questions from the Board? <br />(NO response.) Anyone in the audience wish to question or make a <br />comment with regard to the presentation by Eagle? (NO response.) <br /> <br />Thank you very much, gentlemen. <br /> <br />MR. ANDREWS: Thank you. <br /> <br />MR. BARRETT: Thank you very much for your time and consideration. <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: The third community is Grand Valley, Ed Carpenter. <br /> <br />MR. CARPENTER: I am the consulting engineer for the Town of Grand <br />Valley. I would second everything Mr. Sparks has said and double it <br />in spades and say "Amen!" It is very, very true for the Town of Grand <br />Valley, which has experienced some growth which is nothing like the <br />growth they are going to experience. because it is the closest commu- <br />nity to the oil shale area. <br /> <br />The town has an old an antiquated system built many years ago, and it <br />is supplied by a series of springs that outcrop along the edge of a <br />nearby mesa. A decrease in the amount of irrigated agriculture on the <br />mesa decreased the total flow of these springs. We have spent quite <br />a little money in the last two or three years trying to rehabilitate <br />the springs and drilling horizontal wells with only temporary success <br />in doing this. <br /> <br />It is projected that the town, now that oil shale really appears to <br />be on the horizon and if the new community of Battlement Mesa comes <br />into being, Grand Valley will undoubtedly be the focal point as the <br />supplier of both sewer and water service for a total population of <br />some 18,000 people or more. As of March of 1977, the town had a popu- <br />lation of 372. So there is going to be, without question, some real <br />growth in the Town of Grand Valley. <br /> <br />Another disrupting influence and one that will undoubtedly change-the <br />whole complexion of the community is the new construction of Inter- <br />state 70 that will wipe out a portion of the town itself. The new <br />freeway will run parallel with the railroad tracks and wipe out a por- <br />tion of the town and. in my estimation, will create primarily an <br />industrial and commercial area in the present townsite and around it. <br />Most of the residential growth will occur on the south side of the <br />tracks and across the river or over in the Battlement Mesa area. <br /> <br />Our request is to you today for this water system. I will anticipate <br />Mr. Jackson's question, because we have $31,000 included for metering <br />of the entire town, which is not now metered. Some of the services <br />out of town are presently metered, but the vast majority are not. <br />But the town will be metered. <br /> <br />I would anticipate another question from Mr. Fetcher about sewers, <br />also. The town's sewer treatment system, constructed in 1938, is now <br />at or above capacity. It was above capacity this summer. We have <br />completed a 201 study and will be coming to the Water Quality Control <br /> <br />-7- <br />