WSP00241

• File Number: 8430.500
• Description: Platte River-Platte River-Water User Groups and Conservancy Districts-Denver Water
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/1/1957
• Title: Denver Board of Water Comm Reports 1957-Report on Comprehensive Studies of the Denver Raw Water System-Part 1
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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MANNER OF MAKING THE STUDIES

power to Dillon where there is an interconnection between the
Bureau's transmission system and that of the Public Service Com-
pany of Colorado.

The economics of a power plant constructed below Gross
Reservoir were determined, Two types of plant were considered.
One would be a peaking plant capable of operating at a load
factor of about 20 per cent, The other would have a capacity
which could operate at an average load factor of some 40 per
cent.

The final decree in the United States District Court for the
District of Colorado in the Consolidated Cases Civil No, 2782,
5016, and 5017, among other things contains the following pro-
vision in respect to the use of Blue River water by the cities of
Denver and Colorado Springs:

"(e) To the extent that the importation and the use of
water from the Colorado River System, over and above the
quantity of water diverted from that source during the last year
being October 1st. 1954 to September 30, 1955, by reason of the
return flow from the municipal systems of said cities increase the
amount of water said cities may lawfully utilize from all sOilYces
in order to supply their municipal needs, througll exchange or
otherwise, to Ihat same extent the right to divert water from the
Blue River shall be correspondingly decreased if such exchange
is not exercised; provided, however, that the obligation to utilize
water from the Colorado River System by exchange or other-
wise shall be subject to the conditions, limitations, and safeguards
as set forth in the following subdivision. the same being subdi-
vision (f) of this paragraph.

" (f) In order to accomplish the objectives set forth in the
immediately preceding subdivision hereof, the same being lettered
(e), each city underta~es to exercise due diligence, within legal
limitations and subject to economic feasibility, To that end, the
City and County of Denver and the City of Colorado Springs
shall, respectively, submit to the Secretary of the Interior on or
before December 31 st of each calendar year, beginning with the
year 1957, a report sllOwing by months for the water year ended