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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average for 163 days; or supplemental water of 100,000 gallons per

day average for 326 days; or for the 243 days not required to fill

the reservoir, the reservoir in turn would provide an average of

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134,156 gallons average per day to supplement the present wells. The

shortage from the present wells exist for approximately 90 to 120

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days each year.

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On the basis of these pumping and storage requirements, no

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additional water rights would be necessary. Dove Creek has a

conditional right for 0.38 cubic feet per second or 170 gallons per

minute remaining from their 1951 decrees. This decree could be used

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for the proposed river pumps. If this could be accomplished, it would

not be necessary for Dove Creek to acquire additional early decree

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water upstream for release to them.

An alternate to pumping all of the required water from the

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river and a source of supplemental water would be to construct raw

water supply ditches from either Dove Creek, Monument Creek, or

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possibly from both to collect the water available from these sources.

6.5 square

ditch out of Dove Creek would be approximately 1.2 miles

would pick up water from a drainage area of approximately

miles. A supply ditch out of Monument Creek would be

A supply
long and

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4.8 miles long and have a drainage area of approximately 7.7 square

miles.

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