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<br />! <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: Chuck Lile <br /> <br /> <br />FROM: Bill Green <br /> <br />DA1E: July 31, 1995 <br />SUBJECT: NOIwood Water Supply <br /> <br />The Town of Norwood Water Commission is proposing to construct a new raw water <br />reservoir of about 100 acre-feet of capacity with a $950,000 loan from the Construction Fund. <br />The following is a surmnary of the NOIwood water supply system and water rights taken from <br />the Feasibility Reporl, Raw Wafer Supply System prepared for the Town of Norwood Water <br />Commission by WestWater Engineering and dated March 22, 1995: <br /> <br />Existing S.)'stem <br /> <br />The Norwood system supplies water to about 1,300 persons in the Town of Norwood and the <br />former Wrights Mesa Rural Water System. Both areas are now served by the Town of <br />Norwood Water Commission (NWC). Virtually all municipal and rura1 water users in the <br />Norwood area receive ~~~.;rfrom the NWC. <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 pipelines 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 (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 surmnary of the existing water <br />rights. <br /> <br />Table IV-I indicates that Norwood owns 60 shares in the Fanners Water Development <br />Company (FWDC). FWDC has numerous rights to divert and store water from Beaver <br />Creek, a major tributary of the San Miguel River. Water is stored in Gurley Reservoir which <br />has a capacity of about 11,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />There are, at present, some problems in distinguishing Norwood's surface rights from Gurley <br />Reservoir releases in the Gurley Ditch during the irrigation season. In addition, there is a <br />lack of long-tenn records for Norwood's use of its decreed municipal rights. A portion of <br />the proceeds from a Construction Fund loan would be used to establish a flow measurement <br />