WSP01021

• File Number: 8441
• Description: Colorado Big Thompson Project
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/1987
• Title: Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District Waternews
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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3 Number of pumping plants that lift
water throughollt the system.

C,.BT by the Numbers

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Acre~feet of water run fdr 24 hours
is equivalent to one cub~c~foot per
second (cfs) run during!the same
time span.

25 Shoreline miles at Horsetooth Reservoir.

Acre;feet 3. 0 7
contained in .
1 million gallons of water.

34.4 Miles of tunnel throughout the C-BT system,

4Managers the NCWCD has had during
its first 50 years.

40

Miles of shoreline at Lake Granby.

Number of pqwer
plants that .
generate
electricity
within the
system.

5 Dams
and
dikes
enclosing
'. Horsetooth
Reservoir.

95.5

Total miles of canals, conduits and siphons
in the C,.BT system.

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The cubic foot per ffi'
second capacity. j
of Dixon Feeder Canal. :

75 Miles of the Cache La Poudre River that were designated Wild and Scenic in
1986 under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

9\9

Diameter in 'fe'et-~e' Adams Tunnel.

14.18 A verage ~nnuaf pr~cipitation "in
inches within NCWCD boundaries fo.[ a
30 year period (1957-1986).

13.1

Length in miles of the Alva B. ;Adams
Tunnel under the Continental Divide.

74

Record number of feet excavated in one day during construction of the Adams T unoel.

19 Years taker1 to complete
constructiofi of all features of the
C-BT Project.

233 Number of gallons U.S.
. citizen uses to meet average
daily needs. .

7 Counties are included within the NCWCD.

23 Numbe,r of cities and towns that
receive water from the C-BT Project,

320 Acre-feet of storage capacity of Windy Gap Reservoir.

NI2 b .

urn e r of st~rage reservoirs in the C-BT system - also the number
of persons serving on the NCWClj) Board of Ditectors.
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