PROJC00005

• Contract/PO #: C153721
• Contractor Name: Lyons, Town of
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 5
• County: Boulder
• Bill Number: SB 96-153
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Contract Documents

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RECEIVED
NOV 1 5 1995

Colorado Water
Conservalioo Board

TOWN OF LYONS, COLORADO
RESOLUTION NO. 1995-9

A RESOLUTION CALLING AN ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 7, 1995,
TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF WATER ANn WASTEWATER REVENUE
OBLIGATIONS OF THE TOWN FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINANCING
WATER AND WASTEWATER IMPROVEMENTS; AND SETTING THE BALLOT
TITLE AND BALLOT QUESTION FOR THE FOREGOING.

WHEREAS, the Town of Lyons' wastewater treatment plant (the .WWTp., is
subject to current total suspended solids violations; and

WHEREAS, the WWTP has inadequate aerobic digestion volume and is thus
unable to meet new sludge regulations; and

WHEREAS, the WWTP is subject to wintertime freezing of its unenclosed
treatment unit; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Lyons' water treatment plant (the .WTp., requires a
clearwell structure and associated piping changes to meet State of Colorado
standards for the disinfection process to destroy pathogenic organisms; and

WHEREAS, the WTP's sole intake structure on the north St. Vrain is in an
extreme state of deterioration; and

WHEREAS, the WTP's intake structure cannot divert river water into the WTP ~
in periods of cold weather and minimum stream flow; and

WHEREAS, the extremely poor condition of the intake structure could lead
to the structure failing during high water in the spring; and

WHEREAS, the WTP is in need of design changes to the clarification,
flocculation and sedimentation process to deal with turbidity and other
standards; and

WHEREAS, the condition of the WTP has in recent months forced the Town of
Lyons to twice notify its drinking water customers of certain substandard
conditions; and

WHEREAS, backup electric power and pumping capacity is needed at the WTP
in order to insure consistent supply without failure to the WTP's users; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Lyons' domestic water supply is dependent upon a
storage tank located at a vulnerable distance from the users of the WTP and thus
closer additional storage is needed for emergency storage and fire protection;
and

WHEREAS, many of the standards the Town of Lyons is called upon to meet
have recently been established, and thus have not previously been met; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees (the "Board"' of the Town of Lyons, Boulder
County, Colorado (the "Town"', has determined that the public interest and the