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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Water Use

Water supp1 ies of the Elk Creek complex serve the administration
building, visitors center, marina and 180 campsites and are currently
provided from surface and ground water sources. At Elk Creek, summertime
peak water use is approximately 100,000 gpd. Water use on an average
summer day is approximately 60,000 gpd and on an average winter day is
approximately 16,000 gpd. Elk Creek n is an electrically pumped well
that provides approximately 16,000 gpd of good Quality water. The
remainder of the Elk Creek water supply needs are met by surface water
supply from Blue Mesa Reservoir. Water drawn from the reservoir
occasionally has difficulty meeting standards for turbidity. Future
plans are to completely replace the surface water supply system at Elk
Creek with an expanded well system that will meet all of the area's M&I
needs and eliminate the problem of turbidity.

Water supplies at the Lake Fork Marina serve the marina and 90
campsites and have been provided from a 10,000 gpd spring/gravity fed
water source in the past. A new well to serve Lake Fork was completed in
late 1987. Average daily summer water use of Lake Fork is approximately
17,000 gpd. Small electrically pumped wells are located at the
facilities at Cimarron, lola, and Stevens Creeks. An electric generator
operates the well pump at Ponderosa Campground. The remaining
campgrounds and facil ities within the recreation area are eQui pped with
hand pumps. Water Quality measurements are taken within the recreation
area every two weeks. Where necessary, purification is provided with
iodinators (personal interview with Jeff Heywood, Curecanti Faci1 ities
Manager, September 4, 1987).

B.2.5.13 Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL)

RMBL is an independent non-profit corporation dedicated to research
and education in the biological sciences. RMBL has owned and operated a
high-altitude summer field camp and research faci1 ity since 1928 at the

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