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. . Deli very point i " 001 H ., . . Quant ity I aore-feet: . . Route ; Sour oe I Upper Middle 2.700 : Beaver Cree k . Beaver Creek 10,300 : below Sl~guay I Sout h Pla:tte 7,COO I River . South Platt e 45,000*; River : Reservoir No.4. and St. : Johns Tunnel Pipeline vin Sand Creek ani : Colorado Highway 115 P>;mp line from -Eleven Mile I Res. to SOo Catamount Creek : Pump line fr"om Eleven Mile , Res. to So,. Catamount Creek , : Reservoir No.4 : City l:lmits of : Colorado Springs : South Batamount Creek Reservoh" : S out h Ca iiiiiiii.ii:'i't" : Creek Reservoir *Inoludes 38,000 aore-feet for irrigation use in the Fountain Valley. -...---- Middle Bell';Ter Creek Plan 8. Thi s plan would provide Colorado Springs with 2.700 acre-feet of: munioipal water from the upper Middle Beaver Creek watershed. It represent s a refinement of the plan far supplying the same amount of: water that was desoribed in the preliminary report of the potential Gunnison-1\rkansus Projeot. Under this plan. the water would be pllmped upwurd a pproximtely 140 feet from Midd le Beaver Creek int 0 the existing Colorado Springs munioipal supply system beginning with Reservoirs 4 anQ 5 whioh empty into Rux-bon Creek. The pumped wuter, together with the present supply would be regulated in Seven Lakes Reservoirs and re- lensed. into the existing 20~inch pipel:ine. The water would generute enorgy in the munioipally-o-<med Ruxton ani Munitou hydroeleotrio power- plants of the Colorado Springs system. 9. The unnuo.l diversion of 2,700 aore-feet from the Beuver Creek watershed would reduoe the water supply for the downstream Skaguay Reservoi'r. That reduotion would cause an o.nnualloss of about 2,500,000 kilowutthours of energy from the Skaguay hydroeleotx'io plant, both . facilities owned und operated by the Southern Colorado Power Company. Estinntes of: the annual gain and loss in Jwdroelootrio power production as a result of the diversion o.re as follows: Gain at Ruxton and Manitou plants. . . . Power required Ear pumpingq ~ 0 . 0 . . . Loss at Skaguay plant 0 g . e _ 8. 9 & Net over",.l g.'1in in produoti on. . . . Annual kw.'.hrs. 7,500;000 500,000 - 2,500,000 4,500~000 10. It appeurs the.t the net overal'- annual gain of 4,500,000 kilowatt hours to the ,).ity of Colorado Springs would be suffioient ei the r: (D.) to finanoe the oonstruction of a transmission line for the replaoe- ment of power lest at the Skaguo.y plant or: (b) if sold, would result in revenues suffioiont for the oity to reimburse the Southern Colorado Power Company. For the purpose of this study it ho.s been assumed that the debits and oredits ::nvolved in the pOWer tran~~_m,i"n wo'_dd be r.tbout equ0.1J therefore, the oost of th6 "'l'nnsmission line m.s nab beell in~ oluded in arriving 9t tho ~ost of munioipal ~ter.