C153333 Feasibility Study

• Contract/PO #: C153333
• Contractor Name: Beaver Park Water, Inc.
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 12
• County: Fremont
• Bill Number: SB 80-67
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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use is estimated at 30,000 visitor-days. The Division is
currently making a detailed investigation of fishing use and
success at the reservoir.
The ground water resources of the Beaver Park area are
somewhat limited. There are occasional wells for domestic
use which tap ground water in the fractured limestone of the
Niobrara formation, Yields of these wells are less than 15
gpm and the source of the water is undoubtedly seepage of
irrigation water, There are also several wells which tap
the Dakota sandstone at depths of about 500 feet, These
wells produce warm, moderately mineralized water which will
flow on the south part of Beaver Park, Yields range up to
about 400 gpm.
As mentioned in Chapter II, the Beaver Park irrigation
system was developed by consolidation of a variety of small
water rights from Beaver Creek into one diversion point.
Table 5 p~esents a listing of the various rights with the
amounts and priority dates. Some of the water rights which
had been part of the Beaver Park system have been sold in
recent years and are not inciuded in this list, The sum of
the direct flow rights at the Beaver Park diversion is 90,9
cfs with 4,185,6 acre feet of storage for Brush Hollow,
The water rights for Beaver Park are sufficiently
senior that all flows less than about 60 cfs can be diverted
without the need to pass water on down Beaver Creek to the
Arkansas River. Thus Beaver Creek is normally dry between
the diversion dam and Highway 50. Occasionally in periods
of high runof~ such as 1979, or reduced irrigation demand,
water will be passed down Beaver Creek.
In the purchase of the water rights from the City of
Colorado Springs, the City retained an undivided one-half
interest in 10,7 cfs of the first 25,96 cfs of water rights
through priority no, 41. This interest was decreed in case
W-4528 as an alternate point of diversion at the St, John
tunnel point of diversion of Colorado Springs on the south
slope of Pikes Peak. The alternate point of diversion can
only operate in years with very high flows and is expected