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<br />The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project is a multipurpose U.S. Bureau of Reclama- <br />tion Project described in detail later in this report. Colorado Springs, Wi. <br />the nearby communities of Fountain, Security, Widefield, and Stratmoor Hills, <br />are participants in the project and will receive water from that source. <br />Colorado Springs eventually expects to receive l4,400 acre-feet of water from <br />the project. Delivery will be through the Fountain Valley pipeline, now <br />(l983) under construction, from Pueblo Reservoir to the south side of Colorado <br />Springs. Until construction of the Fountain Valley pipeline is complete, <br />deliveries of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water are being made through the <br />Otero pumping station and Homestake pipeline. <br /> <br />In recent years, Colorado Springs has participated in the winter- <br />water-storage program, an outgrowth of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project <br />operations. In 1981, 1982, and 1983, participation has been by storage in <br />Twin Lakes Reservoir, with simultaneous release of return flow from imported <br />water down Fountain Creek. When the winter-water-storage program is in <br />operation, Colorado' Springs stores in its reservoir inflow in addition to that <br />allowed by priority. <br /> <br />The Twin Lakes Project also is described later in this report. Colorado <br />Springs owns 49.845 percent of outstanding shares of Twin Lakes Project water; <br />future total supply from the source is expected to be 27,000 acre-feet <br />annually. In addition to water yielded by the project, the city also has the <br />right to use storage in Twin Lakes Reservoir. Twin Lakes Reservoir is on Lake <br />Creek, which has its confluence with the Arkansas River about 5 miles upstream <br />from the intake to the Otero pumping station. Twin Lake Project water is <br />brought into the Colorado Springs system through the Homestake pipeline. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Ground water provides a small (generally about 3 percent) but important <br />segment of Colorado Springs water supply. Ground-water sources are the <br />Pinello Ranch, the Hanna Ranch, and the wells of the Cherokee Water District. <br />The city's contract with the Venetucci Ranch (which is located just west of <br />Security) expired. <br /> <br />The Cherokee Water District supplies about 225 acre-feet of water <br />annually from their well field in the Black Squirrel Creek basin east of the <br />city. This water is purchased from the Cherokee Water District by Woodland <br />Park, and exchanged for a like quantity of water, delivered via the Homestake <br />pipeline. <br /> <br />The Pinello Ranch is located on the flood plain of Fountain Creek <br />immediately west of the town of Security. Fourteen wells produce from the <br />Widefield aquifer. Water from these wells is routed through a pumping, <br />chlorination, and metering station by a l6-inch pipeline, into the distri- <br />bution system serving Security and Colorado Springs; the wells also are used <br />for domestic purposes and irrigation on the ranch. Ground-water recharge from <br />six ponds on the Pinello Ranch is supplied by the Stubbs and Hiller Ditch; <br />wells are an alternate point of diversion for that ditch. A discharge of 2.45 <br />cubic feet per second is allowed annually from the wells; total yield to the <br />system from the Pinello Ranch wells is l,400 acre-feet per year. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />24 <br />