C153664 Engineering report

• 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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A. Introduction and Purpose
In September 1993, the City of Fort Lupton, Colorado (City) submitted to the
Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER)
for the City's proposed water supply and treatment project. In December 1993, the
City submitted an Amendment to the PER to reflect project developments that had
taken place between September 1993 and December 1993.
In March 1994, the City received comments and reljuests for clarifications
from FmHA concerning the information that had been submitted. The purpose of
this second amendment to the PER is to provide the information requested by
FmHA.

B. Connection Fees
Fort Lupton will not own nor be a partial owner of the Northern Colorado
Conservancy District's (NCWCD) Southern Water Supply Project. Fort Lupton will
own the exclusive rights to 8 cubic feet per second (cfs) (5.17 million gallons per day
[mgd]) of capacity in the NCWCD raw water pipeline. however, NCWCD will own
and will be responsible for operating and maintaining the raw w,ller pipeline.
Therefore, Fort Lupton's $8,837,000 share of the Southern WateI Supply Project can
be viewed as a connection fee for the raw water delivery. The budget information
contained in this PER Amendment No.2 reflects this cost as a connection charge.
A copy of the allotment contract between NCWCD and Fort Lupton is included in
Appendix A.
FmHA will not allow joint ownership of the raw water storage tank and water
treatment plant (WTP) between Fort Lupton and Hudson. Therefore, because Fort
Lupton is the majority participant in these facilities, Fort Lupton will own these
facilities on a 100 percent basis. This PER Amendment No.2 assumes that Hudson
will find this arrangement to be acceptable. The WTP will be designed and
constructed for 2.5 mgd of capacity for Fort Lupton and 0.5 mgd of capacity for
Hudson. For its rights to 0.5 mgd of treatment capacity in the WTP, Hudson will
pay Fort Lupton a connection fee for exclusive use of this quantity of treatment
capacity as well as for exclusive use of a potion of the raw water storage that is
being constructed as part of the proposed project.
For treatment, Hudson will pay to Fort Lupton a charge equal to its
percentage of use. The charge will cover actual operation and maintenance costs.
Fort Lupton will not make any profit on the water that is treated and delivered to
Hudson. Hudson will be charged for water based on actual operating and

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