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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Item 6. Provide a new six (6) inch distribution line from the middle storage tank to the Town limits and loop the town with a 6 inch line. In addition, add fire hydrants to gain a reasonable fire protection system. Item 7. Provide additional storage of raw water or treated water. Raw water storage can be developed by using a low head dam on C1ear Creek. Initial calculations show that a 40 ft. thin arch dam cou1d develop about 2.5 million cubic feet of storage or 100 days of town usage; a 20 ft. dam would develop about 50 days usage. It is believed because of the excellent sandrock formations that a thin arch dam would be equivalent in costs to a potable ground storage tank of equal capacity. At the present time when fully utilized, the Town has about 25 days storage. Geologic Formations The watershed lies within three basic geologic formations which are: Basic lava flows and flow breccias (Tep); Poison Canyon Formations (Tpc) , and Raton Formation (Tka). These form- ations are important because combined they create the spring flow conditions around Fishers Peak. In addition, the Raton Formations should provide excellent foundation materials for building storage facilities, either dams or tanks. Figure 5 illustrates the Geologic Formations discussed above. Figure 4 indicates the same geologic area and the landslide con- ditions around Fishers Peak. The landslide areas are shown in black on Figure 4. The black area matches closely the Poison rock formations. Comparisons of these geologic formations with the general topographic map, Figure 3, provide an insight to the spring flows. The springs are surfacing at the toe of the land- slide areas which also conforms to the plane difference of the Poison and Raton Formations shown on Figure 5. ~ ~ 23 ~