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<br />A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE FOOTHILLS WATER TREATMENT COMPLEX: <br />RELIABILITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION <br /> <br />The Foothills Water Treatment Complex, authorized <br />by the people of Denver in the $160 million bond referendum <br />of 1973, often is perceived as a means of adding to Denver's <br />water treatment capacity -- over and above present daily <br />delivery capability of 520 million gallons. <br />Actuallv. it is a replacement plant which will take <br />over much of the 365-day brunt of metro Denver treated water <br />needs, and place less efficient, less dependable and energy- <br />consumptive plants on a secondary basis -- to be used only <br />as needed. <br /> <br />This report, which is supplemental to one issued <br />on March 1, 1977, and revised on August 10, 1977 by Water <br />for Colorado, will address the reliability, cost effective- <br />ness and energy consumption of the Foothills Water Treatment <br />COIIlplex. <br /> <br />I. Reliability <br /> <br />It is generally assumed that the Denver Water Depart- <br />ment's existing treatment plants can dependably deliver <br />520 million gallons per day, week after week, month after <br />month, year after year. Much of the opposition to the Foot- <br />hills Water Treatment Complex is based on the theory that <br />Foothills will be merely an add-on to 520 million gallons <br /> <br />00'7:7 <br />