PROJ00079

• Contract/PO #: FS0012X
• Contractor Name: New Castle, Town of
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 0
• County: Garfield
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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ENGINEERS
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SCHMUESER
GORDON MEYER

118 West 6th, Suite 200
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

November 6, 1995

Mr. John W. Van Sciver
, Colorado Department of Health
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, CO 80203

RE: Town of New Castle
Low Interest Loan Proaram for Raw Water Pi Deline ImDrovements

Dear John:

This letter is in response to your memo to Mr. Mike Blair, Town Planner for the Town of New
Castle, dated October 27, 1995. More specifically, it is in response to the application
attached to your memo to Mr. Blair.

I am providing this letter as a transmittal for the attached application and referenced reports
as well as a supplemental report which updates and clarifies information contained in the
attached reports. We have attached a "Report on Water Supply and Treatment Capabilities"
prepared by Schmueser Gordon Meyer in August 1995. In reviewing this report, you will
surmise that this Report on Water Supply and Treatment Capabilities is actually a combination
of several reports prepared by Schmueser Gordon Meyer, Resource Engineering and Mr. Blair.

In this report, you will find a letter dated August 8, 1995, which is the most recent letter
discussing the Town of New Castle Water Supply and Treatment Capabilities. This letter
further reference the supplemental information which covers the population of New Castle,
EOR projections, water rights and water treatment facility capacities. I would direct your
attention to this letter as well as a report referenced to, dated october 31, 1994, also
prepared by Schmueser Gordon Meyer.

In referencing the October 31, 1994 report, Dean Gordon, P.E., of Schmueser Gordon Meyer,
addresses the water treatment facility. At that point, Dean notes that the current capacities
of the water treatment facility during high turbidity times)s limited to about 300 GPM. During
low turbidity times, the plant is able to operate somewhere in the 600-650 GPM range. This
capacity is estimated because the actual limiting factor for plant production is with the raw
water line itself. You will note in this report that Dean estimated the capacity of the raw
water pipeline at about 480 GPM. He further addressed the size and condition of raw water
pipeline as being significantly composed of an 8" diameter pipeline and being constructed of
thin wall PVC with shallow buries. Dean closes his comments with the raw water pipeline
as being, "generally not going to perform adequately for any extended period into the future".