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<br />000573 <br /> <br />West Divide Project (cont'd) <br /> <br />Municipal and Industrial <br />Acre-feet <br /> <br />. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br /> <br />. . 77,500 <br /> <br />Nature of use - Municipal, domestic, and oil shale. <br />Timing of demand (acre-feet) <br /> <br />Oil shale <br />Municipal and domestic <br />Total <br /> <br />Quality or Water <br /> <br />Irrigation water - satisfactory. <br /> <br />1980 <br /> <br />1985 <br />20,000 <br />15,000 <br />35,000 <br /> <br />1990 <br />43,000 <br />25,000 <br />68,000 <br /> <br />2000 <br />43,000 <br />34,500 <br />77 ,500 <br /> <br />5,000 <br />5,000 <br /> <br />Municipal and industrial water - <br /> <br />34,500 acre-feet of high quality water to be made available high <br />above the Colorado River that would require minimum treatment by water <br />users for general use. <br />43,000 acre-feet of lower quality water to be made available in <br />Colorado River that could require considerable treatment by water users <br />before it would be suitable for general municipal and industrial use. <br /> <br />Municipal and Industrial Water Charqes <br /> <br />Proposed rates for raw project water <br />High-quality water available in project <br /> <br />Low-quality water avail able in Colorado <br /> <br />canals (34,500 ac.~ft.) <br />$28/ ac. - ft. <br />River (43,000 ac.-ft.) <br />$8.20/ac.-ft. <br /> <br />Current rates being charged for potable water delivered in tap by <br />speclfled cltles near proJect areal! ' <br /> <br />Rifle, Co10radonbased on annual use of .18 <br />acre-foot municipal and 1.8 acre-feet <br />industrial <br />G1enwood Springs, Colo.--charges are based on <br />~umber of rooms in house. Cost shown assumes <br />3.5 persons per house and per person use of <br />.18 acre-foot per year. $55/ac.-ft. <br />11 It should be noted that the cost of treating and delivering muni- <br />cipal and industrial water generally far exceeds the raw water cost. The <br />project water delivered at the tap in potable condition could be slightly <br />more or less than the above current rates. <br />!i Based on contracts with two c~anies. <br /> <br />Huni ci pa 1 <br />type use <br /> <br />Industrial <br />type use <br /> <br />$141/ac.-ft.' !i$178/ac.-ft. <br /> <br />3 <br />