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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I If the community is going to provide for adequate public health, meet the challenge of expansion, realize its economic potential, and create the community image which will attract business, a community water supply must be provided. The following paragraph is quoted from a "Prel iminary Report on Water Supply System, Winter Park Water and Sanitation District", January 1967, by William B. McDowell and Associates, Boulder, Colorado: "Perhaps the best reason for construction next summer is that the Holiday Inn Corporation is constructing a one-million-dollar development at Winter Park which is to be completed next year. If the opportunity to se1'7Je them is passed and they are forced to provide their own water' needs, this could doom the chance for a public system and handicap the development of this community for another ten years." Factors presented for the immediate construction of a public water supply are that Winter Park is faced with a large expenditure of funds for improvement of their private system; a 92-unit Sheraton Inn is pro- posed for construction with completion scheduled as early as the fall of 1977; most of the community does not have adequate water for fire protection; and no water supply is available for the proposed City Land- Arlberg Club developments, which are necessary for the economic utiliza- tion of the major ski area facilities now in place. This report examines the feasibility of providing a water system to serve the needs of the existing community and planned and potential development within the District. It includes an analysis of system alternatives, provides estimated costs of constructing and operating the facilities, and examines estimated rate structures under alterna- tive methods of financing the project. CLI MATE Elevations within the District range from approximately 8,860 feet to 10,680 feet. The climate of the area is typical of a high-mountain valley. 1-5