FLOOD04607

• County: Gunnison
• Community: Upper Gunnison
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Final Report Appendices Upper Gunnison-Uncompahgre Basin Phase I Feasibility Study
• Date: 5/1/1989
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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required and taps are unmetered. Significant distribution system losses
are indicated by flow patterns at wastewater lagoons.

Water rights are very junior, and an augmentation plan has been
developed. The original Lake City pipeline was decreed for .0983 cfs in
1913. Subsequent filings totalling 7.0 cfs have been made with the
earliest filing dated 1969.

B.2.5.9 Ouray

Originally a mlnlng town on the upper Uncompahgre River, Ouray has a
permanent population of about 800, primarily engaged in providing tourist
and recreation re1 ated services. High Qual ity spri ng water from the
Canyon Creek drainage south of town is transported by gravity through a
10-inch pipeline and provides an adequate water supply for Ouray's water
needs. A 0.5 million gallon storage tank on the transmission line
regulates pressure and supplies peak and emergency demands. Chlorine is
added downstream of the tank.

B.2.5.10 Ridgway

The Town of Ridgway is an agricultural community on the upper
Uncompahgre Ri ver. Coveri ng 650 acres, it has a present popu1 at i on of
just under 400. Ridgway's water rights were decreed in 1916 and allow a
diversion of 7.0 cfs out of Beaver Creek, a tributary of Dallas Creek, at
a point approximately 7 miles south of town. The water is then conveyed
by 4 miles of open ditch to Lake Otonowanda. An 8-inch and 10-inch
pipel ine constructed in 1980 conveys the water from the lake
approximately 2 miles to the water treatment plant, which was also
constructed in 1980.

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Water Quality is excellent at the point of diversion, but is badly
degraded along the open ditch segment of the system. Serious operation
and maintenance problems restrict usage of the Ridgway Ditch during the

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