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<br />....:. <br /> <br />Alliance includes any individual or legally recognized entity having the lawful <br /> <br />right to use water arising in or deliverable into the Clear Creek watershed. <br /> <br />The following ten Alliance members are participants in the Clear Creek study: <br /> <br />Agricultural Ditch and Reservoir Company <br />City of Arvada <br />City of Broomfield <br />Consolidated Mutual Water Company <br />Adolph Coors Company <br />Walt Flanagan & Co., Inc. <br />Mobile Premix Concrete, Inc. <br />North Table Mountain Water and Sanitation District <br />Public Service Company of Colorado <br />Suburban Sand & Gravel, Inc. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />,-. <br /> <br />1.2 STUDY AREA <br />The Clear Creek Basin is located in central Colorado and is bordered by the <br />Continental Divide to the west, and the confluence of Clear Creek and the South <br />Platte River in the City of Denver to the east. The Clear Creek Basin is composed <br />of an upper and lower basin. The two basins combine to drain an area of about <br />575 square mi 1 es. The mountainous upper bas i n provi des the major portion of <br />surface water runoff from annual snowmelt. The lower basin (that part of the <br />basin downstream from the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon) is a plains area where the <br />water is used for agriculture and by municipalities and industry. The Clear Creek <br />Basin map is shown in Figure 1.1. <br /> <br />-' <br /> <br />There are no major on-stream reservoirs in the Clear Creek Basin to regulate <br />and control the flow of the stream. Because most of the unappropriated native <br />flows occur during spring snowmelt, reservoir storage will be required to conserve <br />these excess native flows during the seasonal periods of low stream flow. The <br />existing water supply facilities in the upper basin include transbasin diversion <br />facilities, minor storage reservoirs, tributary wells, and minor water supply <br />diversion structures. The existing water supply facilities in the lower basin <br />include diversion structures, ditches, canals, augmentation stations, storage <br />reservoirs, and pump stations. <br /> <br />'-< <br /> <br />,- <br /> <br />- <br />, <br /> <br />There are more than 15 water suppliers in the lower Clear Creek Basin that <br />use Clear Creek asa raw water source. These water suppliers include agricultural <br />water users and the following major municipal and industrial water users: Arvada, <br /> <br />- <br />i <br /> <br />1-3 <br />