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<br />001445 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />use municipal water. Mr. C. H. Hoper, City Manager of Colorado Springs, <br />has written that several domestic water systems besides tlll-t of Colora- <br />do Springs, serving approximately 10,000 persons inside and outside the <br />city limits, will also require additional water although lack of infor- <br />mation precludes estimates of their anticipated future requirements. <br /> <br />4, The city of Colorado Springs has estimated an immediate press- <br />ing need for 4,000 acre..,feet of additional municipal water. The city <br />further. estimates that their ultimate additional requirements will be <br />20,000 acre-feet by 1998, including the 4,000 acre-feet needed immedi- <br />ately. The city has also evidenced interest in having irrigation farm- <br />ing in the Fountain Valley expanded to the fullest extent possible. <br /> <br />PLANNING PRINCIPLES <br /> <br />5. In studying the municipal water needs of 'Colorado Springs, <br />and other conununities in the Arkansas River Valley, certain fundamen- <br />tal principles were formulated and observed to assure that the scope <br />and quality of the studies would be as broad ani as accurate as funds <br />and time permitted, and that their impartially would be unquestionable. <br />The principles and the practices used in this reoonnaissance- study <br />oonform with those followed in planning the Colorado-Big Thompson Pro- <br />ject and the potential Blue-South Platte and Gunnison-Arkansas Projects. <br />The most important principle s are a s follows: <br /> <br />(oj Municipal u sa of water is the highest possible bene- <br />ficial use and take precedence over all othar uses. <br /> <br />(b) <br />be used. <br />Colorado <br /> <br />Liberal estimates of future population growth should <br />In this study, population estimates by the city of <br />Springs were used. <br /> <br />(0') A uniform price for untreated municipal water at the <br />main source of supply within each river basin should be adopted <br />and charged regardless of the geographical location of the pur- <br />chasing communities within that river basin. The tentative <br />uniform system prices most recently developed for municipal <br />water imported from the Colorado River are $24 per acre-foot in <br />the South Platte River under the Blue-South Platte Project, $20 <br />per acre-foot in the Arkansas River under tha initial phase of <br />the Gunnison_Arkansas Project, and $25 per acre-foot under the <br />ultimate maximum gravity phase of the Gunnison-Arkansas Pro- <br />ject. Final system prices cannot be determined until more de- <br />tailed data are available on those projeots. <br /> <br />(d) Construotion oosts an:! expenses incident to'the di_ <br />version, deli very, or treatmnt of the municipal water from <br />the main source of supply should be borne by the community or <br />conununi t:is s involved. <br /> <br />(0) Cost estilllltes must-be adequate to met the standards <br />of constlUction, maintenance~ operation, and replacement adopte<i <br />by the Bureau of ~eclamat ion.- <br /> <br />2 <br />