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~ Treatment facility: In the 1970-71 construction period, the town of Eagle paid approximately $84,000 for a diatomaceous-earth water treat- ment facility. This diatomaceous-earth water treatment plant is de- signed with all of the necessary equipment to make an automatic filter- ing system. Once the pla~t is set at a certain flow rate, the plant will continue to produce ~ater at that rate until the storage tanks raise to a pre-determined level. Once the tanks reach this level, the plant will shut itself off and stay off until the water in the storage tanks lowers to a pre-determined level. At this time the plant will commence with ~he filtering of domestic water. The plant is an expeosive and relatively complicated piece of equipment. The operation of this requires a skilled technician to operate it. Under an act of the Colorado Legislature, all water treatment operators will ~ave to be certified to operate water plants. The plant, although autom~tic, still requires the normal attention and maintenance which is norm~lly required by mechanical moving parts. The plant is designed to treat 690 GPM of water. During design and construction of the plant, space was provided to install two more filters. The addition of these two filters would double the plant's capacity to treat 1,380 GPM of water. . ~ . Water intake structure and settling ponds: In 1973 a new concrete dam and intake structure were constructed on Brush Creek at the pre- sent point of water diversion. During periods of extreme cold winter weather a significant amount of maintenance is required to keep the ice from blocking the inlet to the settling ponds. From the inlet structure water is piped to an earthen holding pond and then on to a concrete settling tank. The intake structure - 11 -