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<br />. <br /> <br />. ........... <br />... <br />.lV'" <br /> <br />Report of the Regional Director <br /> <br />communities use water from streams and springs. In gener- <br />al, the quality is poor because of excessive hardness. <br /> <br />27. Colorado Springs obtains excellent water from the <br />slopes of Pikes Peak. The city experienced water shortages <br />prior to 1937. Since then, its water storage capacity has <br />been doubled and all service connections have been metered. <br />The city has indicated an urgent need of 4,000 acre-feet of <br />supplemental municipal water immediately and a probable need <br />for an additional 16,000 acre-feet by the year 2000. In <br />1949, Colorado Springs started drilling the Hoosier Pass <br />transmountain diversion tunnel which would import Western <br />Slope water from the Blue Ri ver. The ci ty has expressed <br />interest in obtaining supplemental municipal water from the <br />Initial Development by exchange methods. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />28. Pueblo obtains its municipal water from the Ar~- <br />kansas River. During periods of low flows the water is of <br />poor quality. The water is relatively hard and unpalatable. <br />In 1938, Pueblo acquired the Wurtz Ditch which imports an- <br />nually about 2,000 acre-feet of water from the Western Slope" <br />Much of the yield from that transmountain project is lost to <br />municipal use for lack of storage space. The city has indi- <br />cated an immediate need for 5,000 acre-feet of municipal wa- <br />ter (including the 2,000 acre-feet of Wurtz Ditch water) and <br />an ultimate additional need of 15,000 acre-feet by the year <br />2000. The city has also expressed interest in obtaining <br />treatment of its present supply of '21,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />29. Canon City and Rocky Ford obtain municipal water <br />from the Arkansas River. Canon 'City has not requested proj- <br />ect water. <br /> <br />30. The towns of Manzanola, Rocky Ford, La Junta" Las <br />Animas, and Lamar, and the offstream towns of Crowley, Wiley, <br />and Eads have requested treated municipal water from the <br />project to replace entirely their present supplies. Their <br />immediate needs are about 8,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />Flood control <br /> <br />31. Few daID8f;ing floods of record have occurred in the <br />diversion area and in the Arkans8.S Valley down to Canon City, <br /> <br />. <br />R <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />. ~ ~ <br />