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<br />I. THE NEED <br /> <br /> <br />The Denver Water Department provides treated water to <br /> <br />more than a million metropolitan area consumers, as well as to <br /> <br />business and industrial customers who provide employment to many <br /> <br /> <br />others who do not live within the department's service area. <br /> <br /> <br />At the present time the Denver Water Department has an <br /> <br /> <br />absolute treatment capacity of 520 million gallons per day. Three <br /> <br />plants -- Kassler, Marston and <br />little practical potential for <br /> <br />Moffat u are <br />. 1 <br />expansJ.on. <br /> <br />utilized. <br /> <br />They have <br /> <br />But for relatively mild summers and adequate annual <br />precipitation during the past several :years the capacity would <br />have been exceeded; an extended period of high demand, or <br />technical problems in any of the three plants, would have caused <br />serious ,shortages. <br /> <br />The highest daily water consumption in the history of the <br />department occurred on July 6, 1973, when 506 million gallons <br />were used. At the time, the capacity of the three treatment <br />facilities was only 460 million gallons. A serious shortage and <br />rationing were averted because cooler weather intervened before <br />the treated water storage inventory -- about 300 million gallons <br />was depleted. <br />In 1974 a Moffat Treatment Plant expansion added 60 million <br />gallons to the system's daily capacity. Peak usage has approached, <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />00';'05 <br />