I realize that I may be one of the so called, “I am here, you are not, you are not welcome” people but I truly think that CC needs to take a serious look at curbing further water taps. Note the article on Pueblo West. CC does not have the back up of buying water from Pueblo or anyone else if we want to be realistic. A second reservoir may be a gleam in our eye but it is nothing more than a pipe dream in my opinion even if we could afford to build one. True we would have water to fill a second reservoir on a good year but we wouldn’t need it anyway on a good year. Long term storage cannot be practical because we all saw what happened to Beckwith just this last year with all the algae so imagine storing water for a couple of years and then being able to clean it up for drinking.
Yes, we have wells to pump but just how long do we think that they would last until the water table got so low water was not available.
Take the Duell well which we continually talk about getting on line. Do you realize that when that well was first drilled in the 1950’s that it was originally artesian?
We need to come up with a positive approach on where CC is going to be down the road based on our water availability and it seems that a major decision must be made to restrict water taps.
I am trying not to be negative but rather just practical and perhaps a little selfish because I have a sizeable investment here in CC and if we do not have water I wouldn’t be able to give it away..
Dave Houghton