WSP07965

• File Number: 8446
• Description: Cache La Poudre Project
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 7/1/1983
• Title: Cache La Poudre Project Study and Related Correspondence
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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6. Future Water Supply....................................III-4
INFLOW DESIGN FLOODS....................................... .111-5
SEDIMENT ................................................. .111-6
WATER RIGHTS CONSIDERATIONS.................................III-6
1. General.,.............................................. .111-6
2. Storage Decrees........................."............. .111-7
3. Decreed Alternate Point of S~orage.....................III-8
4. Administrative Options............................... .111:-11
5. Assumptions... .'............. ~........................ .111-11

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CHAPUR IV PU'!URB WA'rER RESOURCBS MNAGBtIEN'r...................... .IV-1
A. INTRODUCTION................................................ .IV-l
B. POPULATION PROJECTIONS...................................... .IV-1
C. WATER USE PROJECTIONS........................................IV-2
1. Municipal and Industrial Wat~r Uses.....................IV~2
2. Agricultural Water uses.....~...........................IV-8
a. Current Agricultural wa~er Use.....................IV-8
b. Future Agricultural wat,r Use......................IV-9
D. OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVED WATER IlANAG~NT........... . . . . . .IV-13
E. POWER DEMAND PROJECTIONS.........~..........................IV-16

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CHAPTER V FOlUIJLATIQ!iI AND SBLEC'l'ION OF PRELIMINARY
AL!BRNATIVB PROJECTS (PHASE I)...........................V-1
A. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . oil . . . . . . . V- 1
B. OEVELOPMEN'I1 CONCEPTS............. '. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v- 1
1. General..................... '............................ .V-1
2. Reservoirs for Conservation storage...~~.................V-1
3. Reservoirs for Hydrpelelectr~c Develo~ent...............V-2
SELECTION OF THE PRELIMINARY ALTE~ATlVE PRQJEcTS.............V-3
FORMULATION. OF PRELIMINARY ALTERNATIVE PROJEpTS...............V-6
1. General.................... .-............................ .V-6

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2. Operation Studies..................... .,................. .V-6
a. Assumptions........... .,............................ .V-7
b. M::>del configurations...j............................ .V-9
c. Results............... .:. ._.... ...... .,.............. .V-l0
3. Description of Potential Majpr Reservoir Sites..........V-24
a. G,rey Mountain Dam......!............................V-24
b. New Seaman Darn........ .:........................... .V-24
c. Elkhorn Dam....................................... .V-24
d. Indian Meadows Dam................................ .V-25
e. Rockwell Dam.......... .-........................... .V-25
f. Idylwilde Darn..................................... .V-25
g. Upper Poudre Dam.... ...:........................... .V-25
4. Description of preliminary ~lternative Projects.........V-25
a. Preliminary Alternative 1..........................V-25
b. Preliminary Alternativd 2..........................V-26
c. preliminary Alternative 3..........................V-26
d. Preliminary Alternative 4..........................V-27
e. preliminary Alternative 5..........................V-27
f. Preliminary Alternative 6......................... .V-28
g. Preliminary Alternativ~ 7..........................V-29

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