C153167 Feasibility Study

• Contract/PO #: C153167
• Contractor Name: Dove Creek, Town of
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 32
• County: Dolores
• Bill Number: SB 77-35
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Quantities Actually Available

Alternate Number One. The Montezuma Water Company by their

purchase of direct flow water for one cubic foot per second with

river priority Numbers 9 and 10, and the Contract purchase of 10

cubic feet per second from Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company with

the guarantee delivery from reservoir water has obtained sufficient

water to meet their need for the foreseeable future, including any

arrangements that may be made with Dove Creek.

Alternate Number Two. It will be necessary for the Dolores

Water Conservancy District and the Town of Dove Creek to make

arrangements

at the Dove

workable or

yield period.

for sufficient water to be delivered in the river

Creek pump station in order for this alternate to be

provide sufficient raw water storage for the low well

This would have to be at least one cubic foot

per second available at all times at the pump station in addition

to the present well sources as direct flow water, or provide

a raw water reservoir with a minimum capacity of 100 acre-feet.

Dove Creek has at the present time two wells which during

periods of high water table will produce approximately 120 gallons

per minute each. However, during the late summer and fall when the

flow in the river is completely diverted, the production in these

wells drops off to less than 50 gallons per minute.

Dove Creek has absolute decrees for 0.70 cubic feet per

second dating from 1951. These decrees are junior to other upstream

rights which penmit the complete diversion of the natural flow in the

Dolores River during the summer of each year.

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