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<br />, <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />. <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Department of Natural Resources <br /> <br />721 State Centennial Building <br />1313 Shennan Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone (303) 866-3441 <br />FAX (303) 866-4474 <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />Roy Romer <br />Governor <br /> <br />James S. Lochhead <br />Executive Director, DNR <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Daries C. Lile, P.E. <br />Director, CWCB <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Chuck Lile ~ <br />Bill Green --p ptJ <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />August 15, 1995 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Town of Norwood Water Commission/Norwood Water Supply <br /> <br />At the Board meeting on July 25th, questions were raised as to the suitability of Norwood's <br />shares in the Farmers Water Development Company (FWDC) for municipal water supply <br />purposes. The following is a technical summary of the Norwood water supply system and <br />water rights as taken from the Feasibility Report, Raw Water Supply System prepared for the <br />Town of Norwood Water Commission by WestWater Engineering and dated March 22, 1995: <br /> <br />Existing Svstem <br /> <br />The Norwood Water Commission (NWC) system supplies water to about 1,300 persons in the <br />Town of Norwood and the~Wrights Mesa rural area outside of Norwood. Virtually all <br />municipal and rural water users in the Norwood area, including most of the shareholders in <br />the FWDC, receive residential water from the Norwood system. <br /> <br />Raw water is diverted from the Gurley Ditch and by underground facilities (an infiltration <br />gallery and a well) below Gurley Reservoir and is transported by pipeline to the water <br />treatment plant. A small (26 acre-foot) raw water reservoir is a part of the existing system. <br />All of the raw water facilities are located about four miles southeast of Norwood adjacent to <br />the Gurley Ditch (please see attached map). <br /> <br />Water Rights <br /> <br />Norwood has municipal rights for both surface and subsurface water in the Gurley Ditch <br />drainage area (a natural drainage basin). Surface rights total 1.0 cubic feet per second (cfs) <br />and subsurface rights total 1.5 cfs of which 0.5 cfs was reportedly decreed for irrigation. <br />Attached is Table IV-I from the feasibility report with a summary of Norwood's existing <br />water rights. <br /> <br />Table IV-I indicates that Norwood owns 60 shares in the FWDC which has numerous rights <br />to divert and store water from Beaver Creek, a major tributary of the San Miguel River. Water <br />