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<br />~ <br /> <br />The consultants have also studied the effect that meters would have <br />on the whole system. The demand curve supplied indicates that meters <br />would reduce the use of water by about 30 percent. <br />PROBLEM <br /> <br />Due to the rapid growth of water demands by all the customers that <br />the Montrose water system supplies, the system must be expanded and <br />improved. Shortages of water are occurring in the summer, and in the <br />winter present water facilities are operating at 100 percent capacity. <br />Improvements are necessary in order that supply becomes adequate for <br />present and future demands. <br /> <br />The two major raw water sources of the city are the Cimarron canal, <br />supplying Cerro reservoir, and the Gunnison River. From the Cerro res- <br />ervoir, the water flows via a pipeline to the Fairview reservoir, while <br />water from the Gunnison River flows through the Gunnison tunnel into <br />the South canal. <br /> <br />The CLmarron canal does not operate through the winter, and winter <br />water supply is obtained from storage in the Cerro reservoir. City <br /> <br />records indicate that the reservoir storage just meets present winter <br />demands. The Cimarron canal is owned and operated by the Cimarron and <br />Uncompahgre Valley Canal and Reservoir Company and the city owns 14 <br />percent of the shares. <br />The city can fill the Cerro reservoir from the Cimarron canal <br />within thirty days after the canal is opened in the spring, and after <br />the 15th of September but before the canal is closed for the year. <br />Montrose also has subscribed for Dallas Creek project water in an <br />amount not less than 1,500 acre-feet or more than 5,000 acre-feet <br /> <br />annually. <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />~. <br />.' .1 <br />'1 <br />