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<br />G2:!.G2 <br />MOFFAT FILTER PLANT (Altitude 5,636 feet) <br /> <br />Location: - West lath Avenue and Owens Street. <br /> <br />Built: - 1st.. uilit completed in 1937, lnd unit to be completed May 1,1957. <br /> <br />Cost: - 1st unit, $l, 009, 000. - lnd unit, $1,305,000. - Total: $3,314,000. <br /> <br />Function: - To filter west slope water delivered to it by stream and conduit via <br /> <br />the Moffat Tunnel. This filtered water supplies the higher elevation areas to <br /> <br />west and east of the Platte Valley sections of Denver. <br /> <br />Capacity: - Each unit rated at 56,000,000 gallons a day* or total of 11l,000,000 <br /> <br />gallons a day"'.. ':'Can be operated. 50'}'O above rated capacity. <br /> <br />Type: - Mechanical sand, with underground concrete settling and clear water <br /> <br />basins. Building of reinforced concrete, brick and steel construction. <br />