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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Water District 8 This includes the part of the study area between the stream gages at SOuth Platte and Denver (Figure 10). The principal water users in this former water district are the cities of Denver, Englewood and Aurora, which use both native South Platte River and transbasin import water. Denver's SOuth Platte River municipal water supply system includes Antero, Elevenmile Canyon, and Cheesman Reservoirs (all located upstream from the study area), and numerous direct flow priorities. Denver's sources of transbasin imports include the Moffat system, which diverts water from tributaries of the Fraser River through the Moffat Tunnel; the Williams Fork system, and the Blue River system, which involves Dillon Reservoir and diverts through the Harold D. Roberts Tunnel (Figure 11, Table 12). For example, the Denver Water Department (1980) served a population of over 950,000 during 1979 with a water supply of over 350,000 acre-feet, of which about 150,000 acre-feet of native SOuth Platte River water was supplied. Both Aurora and Englewood obtain water from a combination of SOuth Platte River water rights and transbasin import sources. In addition to various SOuth Platte River surface water rights, Aurora pumps both trihutary and nontributary ground water from a well field located in the Cherry Creek drainage and owns an interest in the Homestake Project (Figure 11), which imports water into the basin through the Aurora-Homestake Pipeline from tributaries of the Eagle River. The City of Englewood owns SOuth Platte River water rights. Streams in this former water district originally were the sources of water for fairly extensive irrigation under various direct flow water rights. The agricultural lands served by these water rights have been largely "urbanized." The water rights, for the most part, have been acquired by various municipal interests. -49-