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<br />4 <br /> <br />Two cost factors enter into the comparisons: treat- <br /> <br /> <br />ment costs themselves, and the costs of energy required to <br /> <br /> <br />deliver the water into the distribution system. <br /> <br /> <br />Figure 1 tells the whole story. <br /> <br /> <br />The Foothills Complex, including the Strontia <br /> <br /> <br />Springs Dam and Reservoir, provides by far the lowest costs <br /> <br /> <br />$3.42 per million gallons. No pumping costs are incurred. <br /> <br /> <br />While the Kassler plant treatment costs are lowest <br /> <br />of all <br /> <br />$1.57 per million gallons -- pumping costs are <br /> <br />extremely high, $26.69 per million gallons. Thus the total <br />bill to water users per million gallons -- $28.26 -- is nine <br />times that of Foothil1s-Strontia Springs. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Marston plant is about as efficient as Foothills- <br /> <br />Strontia Springs in treatment costs, but pumping costs make <br /> <br />the total bill to water customers $15.93 per million gallons <br /> <br /> <br />-- four times that of Foothills-Strontia Springs. <br /> <br /> <br />The Moffat plant, due to its relatively high elevation, <br /> <br /> <br />incurs no pumping charges. However, because of its seasonal <br /> <br /> <br />operation, and other treatment complications, its cost per <br /> <br />million gallons is $11.07 -- two and a half times the Foot- <br /> <br /> <br />hills-Strontia Springs rate. <br /> <br /> <br />Two variations on the Foothills-Strontia Springs <br /> <br /> <br />proposal have been suggested. <br /> <br /> <br />First, a proposal that the Strontia Springs Dam and <br /> <br /> <br />Reservoir be supplanted by a small dam and diversion structure <br /> <br /> <br />near the junction of the North Fork and South Fork of the <br /> <br /> <br />South Platte River has been advanced. This alternative <br /> <br />00720 <br />