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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />construction of an additional storage facility should begin by January 1984 <br />in order for the facility to be on-line by November 1984. Assuming a new <br />facility is constructed with a usable storage of 600 acre-feet, the total <br />available winter supply would be approximately 1,020 acre-feet including <br />the water currently available from Louisville Reservoir. At the present winter <br />consumption rate of 119 gallons per capita per day. this would provide an <br />adequate winter supply for a population of approximately 18,500 which should <br />not occur until beyond the year 2000. <br />As shown in Table 8, the City owns enough senior direct flow water rights <br />to provide an adequate water supply during drought years up through the year <br />1987. Projected drought year yields of the City's water rights are shown on <br />Table 9. It is recognized that the estimates shown on Table 8 for the projected <br />storage requirements during a typical drought year are rough estimates at best. <br />However, the estimates provide an indication of the time frame for acquisition <br />of carry-over storage for a drought year water supply. During an extended <br />drought lasting for more than one year, carry-over storage requirements would be <br />much higher than the estimates shown on Table 8. It is recommended that a <br />detailed operation study be conducted which takes into consideration the yield <br />of transferred water rights, potential exchanges, stream flow estimates, and <br />carry-over storage which can be compared to projected demands during critical <br />drought periods. Such an operation study should consider the combined operation <br />of Marshall Lake, Louisville Reservoir and proposed storage facilities. <br />The City currently has storage space available in Marshall Lake by virtue <br />of its ownership of shares in the Marshall Lake Division of the Farmers Reservoir <br />and Irrigation Company and also by virtue of a agreement with FRICO dated <br />November 15, 1978, which allows the City to utilize surplus space in Marshall <br /> <br />22 <br />