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Grand Junction official outlines plan to stretch Cannon Creek supply and add reservoirs
Summary
A Grand Junction presenter described long-term planning steps including conservation, efficiency upgrades, ditch lining and potential conversion of gravel pits to reservoirs to extend municipal supply and protect against drought.
A presenter identified only as Randy described Grand Junction’s multi-pronged long-term water-supply planning on the first day of the Interbasin Compact Committee meeting in Grand Junction, emphasizing conservation, system efficiency and new storage as ways to stretch the city’s mountain-sourced supplies.
Randy said the city’s consultants and the Bureau of Reclamation funded a strategy that showed “our latest projections is that our water demands will exceed our Cannon Creek water supply by 2056,” and urged early planning to spread large projects out over decades.
The presentation summarized the city’s water system history and assets — spring and Gunnison sources developed since the late 1800s, about 308 miles of distribution pipeline and…
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