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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August 8, 1995
Honorable Mayor Rippy and Board of Trustees
Town of New Castle
Page 5

V. Water Treatment Facility Expansion

To begin implementation of the Phase I treatment expansions, several timely processes are
going to be involved. The first of these processes are going to be related to obtaining funding
to impLement the Phase I expansion. The second will be design of the expansion itself and
thirdly, construction of the expansion. In the interim, the Town will need to be prepared to
deal with water shortages. Obviously, the most effective way of dealing with water shortage
will be to limit the amount of lawn and garden watering in the Town itself. There are
variations to setting up and implementing a program which would limit the amount of lawn
and garden watering within the Town. The variations can and should be explored. Although
the following two suggestions do not help increase the immediate supply/production of water
within the Town itself, they will provide future mechanisms to deal with future shortages:

A. With any new developments coming on line within the Town (whether annexing
or not), it should be a Town policy that, much like Castle Valley Ranch, these
developments bring with them water that would be augmented for their specific
use. If it is not possible to bring adequate water rights to the Town, then cash
in lieu of water rights could be required of these developments so future water
rights purchases can be performed by the Town.

B. The Town should begin investigating alternative means of providing lawn and
garden irrigation within the Town itself. For example, with the development of
the current phase of Castle Valley Ranch coming to an end, it may prudent of
the Town to consider working with the Developer of Castle Valley Ranch to
initiate the construction of an irrigation system within the second phase of
Castle Valley Ranch.

In regards to the agreement'between-the Town and Mr. Williams, Mr. Williams
is transferring water to the water treatment plant to be used not only for
consumptive use within the Town, but also is being used as lawn and garden
irrigation. It may be possible to revisit the agreements between Mr. Williams
and the Town to not transfer all of the water rights to the plant, but to keep
some of the water rights in the Coryen Ditch to be delivered to Castle Valley
Ranch and diverted from that point for lawn and garden irrigation.

With the proposed elementary school that will be coming 9n line possibly next
year, this type' of irrigation system may take some strain off the water
treatment plant production that would be required to irrigate the acreages.
involved with the ball fields proposed with that facility.

In summary, we have found through the preparation of this report that the Town's legal and
physical supply to the demand on the Town is adequate. However, we have found that the
Town's ability to physically supply the water from the demand placed on the water facilities,

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