PROJ00124 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I . , , 3. The Town doesn't have to construct a reser- voir to hold water rights. This is somethiny the Town would need to do if it de~ided to own North Poudre stock and store water for year-round use. 4. The Town owns 53 shares of North poudre stock. As part of the proposed exchange, the Town is 'getting bene- fit of taking 275 acre feet at a cost similar to actual ownership of the stock. The principal difference is the charge set by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District for . delivery of domestic water, currently $6.25 an acre foot. . The point is in a fair exchange you are trans- ferring the rights of ownership in stock for another right a perpetual contractual right to receive water. You must then decide if you believe the exchange is fair and one you are willing to make. If you believe you wish to proceed with North Poudre, then ~ think you must next be satisfied as to the quality of wa~er you would be able to receive from North Poudre Reservoir No.3. This seems to me to fall in the area of the responsibility of the engineers to see that any necessary quality tests have been obtained and explain the results to you and you would want to know about the hardness or softness of this water, compared to that available from the Town wells and which would be available under an agree- ment with ELCO. You must decide the best way to finance any im- provements. If you choose to use a private company, then we would need to know if there is a company willing to build this water filter plant for the potential tax benefits to that company. If so, we would need to find out the require- ments that that company imposes to know that you would be willing to accept them and that they would be compatible with the general principals being worked upon between your- selves and North Poudre. If progress is made, and your judgment is that Wellington should build and operate its own filter plant, then I think we should see if there will be support for this method from the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the Farmers' Home Administration. In my opinion, in all these steps a representative or representatives of the Board of Trustees, the Town Administrator, the engineers, the Town attorneys and a representative of North Poudre should be involved so we have a coordinated effort with all of us knowing what is going on and what must be done to make this project work. ' Very truly yours, ~ ~'J/~/.I~ ~V.'~ AVH:seh