WSP05529

• File Number: 8149.700
• Description: Miscellaneous Small Projects and Project Studies - Homestake Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 10/29/1982
• Author: various
• Title: Documents related to the Homestake Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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source development area. No water rights in Colorado Springs
or Aurora are affected by this project.

d) Adequate water supplies are available for efficient operation
of this gravity flow system to provide supplemental water to
the Cities.

e) The criterion concerning level of domestic water treatment
capacity is not applicable since this project is only a
municipal raw water collection system. Adequate water
treatment capacity will be added in the development areas as
needed.

f) The criterion of level of operational capacity for existing
domestic wastewater treatment systems is not applicable, since
this project is only a municipal raw water collection system.
Wastewater treatment capacity will be added in the development
areas as needed.

g) Within the Cities of Colorado Springs and Aurora, the water
from this new collection system will be used by the residents
of these Cities and there is no competition with existing
systems nor are there duplicative services.

h) Since this project is an extension of a water system and not a
replacement of a water system, this criteria is not applic-
able. However, the existing systems are in a high state of
repair and operational efficiency; no replacement is needed.

i) Area and community development and population trends from the
1950's through the present have demonstrated a strong growth
trend which will, based on current planning projections,
exhaust existing water supplies for both communities by
approximately 1994 or 1995. Construction under optimum
conditions is expected to take a minimum of five years;
however, the Cities desire to begin construction in 1984 in
order to have maximum flexibility in conducting the construc-
tion at the least cost, as well as with the least environ-
mental and socio-economic costs to surrounding areas.

j) Upgrading or expanding wastewater treatment facilities to meet
water quality standards is not applicable since this is a
municipal water collection system project.

k) In addition to existing easements, appropriate additional
easements have been applied for from the U.S. Forest Service.
The Draft EIS states that the preferred alternative of the
USFS is this proposed project. Accordingly, it is reasonable
to expect that the appropriate easements can be obtained.