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

historic townsite of Gothic on the East River. The draft master plan for
RMBL{I} allows for a maximum of 170 residents, researchers, and students
to be residing at the laboratory at anyone time. The facilities are
currently operated at full capacity. There are no plans to raise these
limits for the foreseeable future. RMBL holds a U.S. Forest Service
Special Use Permit for 2324 acres surrounding Gothic.

Water Use

RMBL receives its summertime domestic water supply from Gothic
Spring on Gothic Mountain and from springs in the Copper Creek drainage.
Gothic Spring provides the majority of the summertime supply but is not
operated during the winter. The smaller Copper Creek water system
operates all year. Both systems are pressurized by gravity and tested
frequently, but do not require any water treatment {Ralph Clark personal
interview, September 16, 1987}.

Incorporated within the Gothic Mountain water delivery system is a
micro-hydroelectric facility which provides lighting for several RMBL
buildings. RMBL holds absolute decrees in the amount of 0.5 cfs for the
Gothic pipeline and the RMBL hydroelectric power plant.

B.3 COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT

The Colorado River Water Conservation District (CRWCD) is a
political subdivision of the State of Colorado, and was formed by the
General Assembly in 1937 to conserve and put to beneficial use the waters
of the Colorado River in Colorado. The District includes all or part of
15 counties west of the Continental Divide and north of the crest of the
San Juan Mountains. The Gunnison River basin represents 8000 of the
29,000 square miles inside the CRWCD boundaries.

(1) RMBL, 1987. Master Plan - RMBL, Draft in progress. RMBL, Crested

Butte, Colorado.

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