Does ELCO have enough water to maintain an adequate supply during a serious drought?
The District owns the right to use water from both the Colorado-Big Thompson ( C-BT) Project and the Poudre River . Developers must provide enough C-BT or Poudre River water to supply the anticipated water demands of the homes and businesses they build. ELCO maintains a raw water supply that is adequate to serve its customers in all but the driest years. Several years of hot, dry weather nearly exhausted supplies in northern Colorado in 2002. In response to that potential water supply shortage, ELCO and other water suppliers in the area asked customers to limit their lawn watering. Customers responded by reducing water use approximately 20%. A similar request for conservation would be made in the future if raw water supplies were limited. The ELCO Board believes the District should own enough water to meet the demands of its customers most of the time, but not 100% of the time. It would be extremely costly to acquire enough raw water to allow ELCO customers to maintain their water use
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