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<br />-- <br /> <br />WOLFORD MOUNTAIN RESERVOIR <br />on <br />MUDDY CREEl{ <br /> <br />Wolford Mountain Reservoir <br /> <br />Location: <br /> <br />storage: <br /> <br />Surface Area: <br /> <br />project Cost: <br /> <br />Construction <br />Financing: <br /> <br />Ritschard Dam <br />Type: <br /> <br />Volume: <br /> <br />Muddy Creek, five miles north of Kremmling <br /> <br />60,000 acre feet <br /> <br />1440 acres <br /> <br />$47 million <br /> <br />$20 million Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />(loan) * <br />$16 million Northern Colorado Water Conservancy <br />District (mitigation payment for Windy Gap <br />Project) <br />$13 million Denver Water (front-end payment) <br />(* Repayment from Denver annual lease payments) <br /> <br />Zoned earth filled <br /> <br />1.4 million cubic yards <br /> <br />Height/Length: 120 feet/2100 feet <br /> <br />Water Use <br /> <br />construction <br /> <br />Denver: <br />15,000 acre feet - Denver use by substitution <br />(after 25 years: 12,000 acre feet) <br /> <br />West Slope: <br />10,000 acre feet Recreation Pool <br />3,000 acre feet Middle Park Water Conservancy <br />District <br />3,000 acre feet Endangered Fish releases <br />2,000 acre feet Wetland Mitigation & Evaporation <br />Unappropriated storage reserved for Western Slope <br /> <br />Two year construction, Spring 1993 - Fall 1994. <br />