WSP05782

• File Number: 8449.913
• Description: Platte River Basin-Miscellaneous Small Projects and Project Studies-Windy Gap/Foothills
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/1970
• Title: Foothills Project-Board of Denver Water Commissioners Annual Report to Consumers
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

This new $4 million water treatment plant at Marston Lake was completed and put into service in mid-1967. One of the Nation's
newest and most advanced facUlties of its type. the plant has a capacity of 100 million gallons per day. It brings
the total capacity of Denver's water treatment system to 485 million gallons per day.

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

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Mayor Thomas G. CUTTigan throws a switch on
one of the instrument panels for the official
start-up of the new Marston Plant. Carl Carl-
son (center), Chief of the Water Department's
Plant Division. looks to see water flowing into
filter beds while Water Board President Ger-
ald L. Stapp (right) observes operation.

Groups of students (sixth grade and above) and
adults are invited to tour the new Marston Plant.
Please call 222-5511, Ext. 354 for reservations.

Commissioner Leonard M.
Campbell views the operation
of the plant's control center
while William Munn, Plant
Foreman, e:rplains the func-
tions of recording instruments.
gauges and signal lights that
provide constant information
on treatment operations and
the dispatch of finished water
into the distribution system.

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Engineers and administrators from
all over the world come to study the
Management and operation of the
Water Department and view Den-
ver's unique water supply system.
Here Henry Adu-Poku, of Ghana
chats with Commissioners Andrew
Horan, Jr. (left). William G. Temple
(center), Gerald L. Stapp (second
from right) and R. S. Shannon. Jr.
(right).

Australia. Brazil. Canada, Finland,
Great Britain. Holland. Indonesia.
Japan, Pakistan, Romania. Turkey
and the U.S.S.R. are some of the
other countries represented by re-
cent visitors to the Denver Water
Department.