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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A. Statement of Need for the Project:

1. The Town of New Castle is undertaking this project to allow it to increase its ability to
meet water service needs for the current and promised users on the Town's water system..
The current pipeline is undersized and in a state of disrepair and no longer represents a
competent means of assuring raw water supply to the Town's water treatment plant. The
new pipeline system will provide for a raw water supply system which will meet the
Town's current needs as well as into the future.

2. The project is needed because the Town's existing demand on the water system at peak
demand in the sunnner months exceeds the Town's ability provide an adequate quantity of
water to the Town's users. The current raw water supply pipeline is one of the '''bottle
neck's" in the water treatment plants ability to meet demand on the system. Additionally,
sections of the raw water pipeline are constructed of low strength plastic irrigation pipe or
P .I.P. and are located at or just below ground surmce. Under this configuration, it is
highly probable that the line may "freeze" or "break". This pipeline is the only source of
raw water to the Town's water system.