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<br />" <br />, <br /> <br />There are currently 329 water taps on the Dove Creek system within <br />the town itself. All taps are metered. In addition to the in~town <br />service, there are 16 rural taps. There is also a public water tap <br />from which approximately 250 additional rural families in the Dove Creek <br />area haul domestic water by truck. <br /> <br />PROBLEM <br /> <br />During the late summer and fall, the Dolores River is completely <br />depleted at the Dove Creek diversion points by senior upstream decrees. <br />In almost every year the yield of the present water supply is insuffi~ <br />cient to meet the requirements of the town, much less those ~f the <br />adjoining rural areas. During those periods, water uses are limited t8 <br />household use only. Lawn watering, car washing and other ~utside uses <br />are prohibited during this time. <br />Another major problem with the present system is the high cost. <br />Dove Creek is outside the Dolores River drainage and the water produced <br />from the wells on the Dolores River must be lifted appr~ximately 1,000 <br />feet vertically in order to get it into the tnwn. The electrical cost <br />alone for this pumping is currently about 21 cents per thousand gallons. <br />This cost will continue to accelera':e in the future as energy becomes <br />more expensive. The transmission system from the Dolores River to the <br /> <br />town is vulnerable to flooding and was completely destroyed about ten <br />years ago. Until that line was repl~ced, water was supplied to the <br />town by military and private ~ater trucks. <br />The ultimate plan is to abandon the present system and to replace <br />it with a system which will derive its supply from the Dolores Project. <br />This plan will require the construction of a treatment plant, storage <br />tanks and a new transmission system. <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />03;:0 <br />