C153664 Feasibility Study

• Contract/PO #: C153664
• Contractor Name: Fort Lupton, City of & Fort Lupton Water Utility Enterprise
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 1
• County: Weld
• Bill Number: HB 93-1273
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Chapter 1
Introduction

A. Purpose
Water quality problems, an old distribution and well system, growth, a new
industry with a significant water demand, and drought are all combining to pose
challenges to the ability of the City of Fort Lupton, Colorado (City) to meet the
demands of its water customers. The City is addressing these problems by way of the
following actions:

. The City is a participant in the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy
District's (NCWCD's) Southern Water Supply Project, which includes a
pipeline to transport surface water from Carter Lake to Fort Lupton. As
part of this project, the City is constructing some raw surface water storage
and a water treatment plant (WTP) to treat this alternate source of supply,
is constructing a treated water pipeline to transport the treated water to the
City's distribution system, is purchasing surface water rights, and is
constructing in-town distribution system improvements to segregate the City's
well water from its treated surface water and help improve pressure within
the City. This project is being funded by way of a $4,233 million loan from
the Colorado Water Conservation Board and a $7.5 million grant and
$11.5 million loan from the federal Farmers Home Association (FmHA),
The Town of Hudson, Colorado is a joint participant in the WTP, and the
water treatment facility has been sited with the this joint cost-sharing
approach in mind. This project is not expected to deliver treated surface
water to Fort Lupton until the end of 1996,

. The City will have Fort Lupton fully metered by the end of 1994 and will
begin collecting metered data in early 1995, with the hope of beginning
billing customers on a metered basis in late 1995 or early 1996.

. The City is committing funding from its water enterprise fund to a leak
detection and correction program, The City should be able to begin
quantifying the severity of leakage after the leak-detection program is
complete (currently scheduled for the end of January 1995) and after
metered data becomes available. Leakage is expected to be high based on
the City's historical experience with its aging and corroded water system,
parts of which date back to 1908.

25325.100; 12/09/94

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