PROJ00300

• Contract/PO #: C153643
• Contractor Name: Morgan County Quality Water District
• Water District: 0
• County: Morgan
• Bill Number: XB 99-999
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Table 2. Estimated Water Requirements
Year Popu- No. of Million gal. Acre-Feet
lation taps per year per year
1st 5100 1500 360 1105
5th 6220 1830 439 1348
10th 6390 1880 451 1385
15th 6560 1930 463 1422
20th 6770 1990 478 1466

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Water supply

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Detailed studies of three ground-water aquifers in the Morgan County

vicinity have been conducted on behalf of the Morgan County Quality Water

Association. The three aquifers are: (1) the Camp Creek alluvium just

east of the Morgan County line, (2) the Hay Gulch alluvium just west of

the west Morgan County line and (3) the Lost Creek alluvium immediately

west of the Hay Gulch alluvium. A report was prepared describing the

geohydrology of these aquifers and evaluating their potential for a water

supply. This report, ent itled "Investigations of Ground Water Supplies

for Proposed Morgan County Quality Water District," is included as Appen-

dix A to this report. The following paragraphs summarize the findings of

the ground-water investigatinn.

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Camp Creek alluvium. Camp Creek is an intermittent stream tributary to

the South Platte River which heads in western Washington County and flows

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generally northwestward entering the South Platte River in eastern Morgan

County near Hillrose. The Camp Creek alluvium occupies an ancestral

channel in the Pierre shale generally underlying the present course of

Camp Creek. Test drilling shows that the saturated thickness of the Camp

Creek alluvium exceeds 120 feet near the eastern boundary of Morgan County.

It is estimated that the Camp Creek alluvium stores at least 185,000 acre-

feet of water,*with an average annual recharge of about 7500 acre-feet.

Existing uses of ground water from the Camp Creek alluvium include water

for irrigation from three wells and water for secondary recovery of oil

from five wells. The estimated consumptive use for these purposes is 1600

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*
See footnote, p. 6a.

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M. W. BITTINGER AND ASSOCIATES, INC.