WSP06249

• File Number: 8147
• Description: Gunnison Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 3/1/1949
• Author: DOI-BOR
• Title: Reconnaissance Study on Municipal and Irrigation Water Supply Plans for Colorado Springs and the Fountain River Valley Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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(.f) Replacemant of water or reimbursement to present
lawful users must be provided.

(g) The prioe for municipal water must be adequate to
cover proper operation. me.internnce and replaoemant expensf;'s,
and to repay in full all direct and joint cong\;ruotion cog\;s
allooated to trot funotion, over a period of 40 years with
interest at the rate of 2-1/2- percent annually" The 40-yeor
repaymont period and the 2-1/2 percent interest rate were
adopted for this g\;udy because, (1) 40 years is the standard
repaymmt period specified in the Reolamation la.w, (2) 2-1/2
percent is the ourrent oog\; of money to the Federal Govern-
IOOnt, (3) that pericri and rate are standard in Bureau analy-
ses, and (4) that period and that rate represent a reasonable
compromise between the 60-yoar no-interest 'Ilerms planned far
irrigation repayment and the terms that might be expeoted on
bonds issued by the oity of' Colorado Springs. However, tiB
period and the interest rate recommendations are subject to
modification if warranted by more detailed data and plans.

(h) State laws pertaining to water mug\; be fully ob-
served"

(;j.) All intQrests benefiting from improved supplies of
water should oontribute toward the oost to an extent commen-
surate with bnnefits they receive"

(.1) Conununities should be encouraged to work out their
own plans of municipal water developmont from tre main sou rce
of supply; however, in the interests of effioienoy and eoon-
01I\Y. the Bureau will undertake to ooordinate all plans involv-
ing a central souroe of supply, and, upon request, will develop
basio plans for delivery from suoh souroes.

MUNICIPAL WATER PLANS

6. Three plans for providing the oity of Colorado Springs solely
with munioipal water are described in this seotion of the report. Three
less attractive plans are also desoribe<' loriefly tlt the end of this
seotion. Dutll purpose plans for munioipal and ilTigation wtlter are
presented in the next seotion.

7. All plans and estimates for munioipal water supplies tlre based
on offioe studies and limited field reoonnaissance only; more dettliled
studies will be needed to arrive at firm costs, pltlns, and specificatiO'l s
for oontraotual tlnd oonstru,.t;_o", ;>'~rpo."s. Estinnted oog\; s are btlsed
OIl July 1947 prioes. The three single-'pur'pos" ,nuIIioipal water plnns
deemed feasible are listed in the fOllOWing tc,bulal;ion in the erder of
their logical devE>lopment and in the order of subso","~,,+ 1<,.cr.1ptieu""

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