Laserfiche WebLink
<br />MR. KROEGER: Are there other questions of the Board? (No respons,e.) <br /> <br />MR. McDANIEL: I did want to mention that the project does have the <br />complete support of the community. The town did adopt the formal <br />resolution at its last meeting, accepting the report of Mr. Carpen'ter <br />and requesting the granting of the fund at this point. <br /> <br />Thank you very much for your report on Grand Valley. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: Thank you. Are there any questions from anybody in the <br />audience? (NO response.) <br /> <br />The next is Nunn. <br /> <br />MR. FOSTER: Good Morning. I am Wayne Foster. I am Mayor of Nunn. <br /> <br />Nunn is located about 75 miles straight north of here on Highway 85 <br />on the way to Cheyenne. We are 35 miles south of Cheyepne and approxi- <br />mately 20 miles north of Greeley and 25 miles northeast of Fort Collins. <br />Any of you who have traveled north toward Cheyenne maype remember a <br />small community witJ'l a tower that says, "Watch Nunn Grow." I am sure <br />this caused a smile on your face as you went through. This isn't <br />exactly all humor. The town has been growing. I have been either on <br />the Board or Mayor of the town since 1949. I have watched it grow <br />from approximately 150 people to 300 now. The feasibility study that <br />was done by Hydro-Triad projects the growth to the year 2000 at approxi- <br />mately 420 people. <br /> <br />The town is populated with farmers. We are a rural, agricultural <br />community. We have farmers, and we have quite a per!==entage of retired <br />people living there. We also have commuters who live in Nunn and use <br />Nunn as a bedroom community or a bedroom and travel either to Cheyenne <br />or Fort Collins or Greeley or the Kodak plant in Windsor for employment. <br /> <br />The bulk of our present system was constructed betweep 1910 and 19.20. <br />We are entirely metered except for a few small businesses which have <br />no yards or gardens or lawns, whose water use is very minimal. The <br />balance of the main system is metered. <br /> <br />As the town has grown, our water supply has, of course, gone down. <br />We have two wells, shallow wells, approximately 40 to 60 feet deep. In <br />the early '70's, the town was starting to think about trying to find <br />more water. However, the Colorado Health Department kind of bea,t us <br />to the draw. In the early 1960's, some of their water tests showed <br />an unusually high nitrate content. The Board was concerned about 'chis; I <br />however, with investigation, their fears were pretty much set at ease <br />because the investigation showed the main danger, I guess. with <br />nitrate was that it could cause blue babies. either in the latter <br />stages of pregnancy or the first six to nine months of the infant':s <br />life. However, none of the old-timers in the town had ever heard of <br />a blue baby. let alone seeing one, so we didn't get too concerned <br />about blue babies. But in the early '70's, the Health Department was <br />back again and our nitrate counts have shown approximately twice what <br />the maximum allowable is. They have indicated to us that we had <br />better do something or we stood the chance or the risk of having our <br />water declared unsafe and not fit to drink. <br /> <br />-IO- <br />