The Draft Feasibility Report \/ Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) explores only four alternatives in detail: “No Action” (storage of water in a to-be-constructed Penley Reservoir and downstream gravel pits), “Least Cost” (continuing to use non-renewable non-tributary ground water for upstream users and storing water for downstream users in gravel pits), Alternative 3 (raising the storage level of Chatfiled Reservoir by 12 feet), and Alternative 4 (raising the storage level of Chatfield Reservoir by 5 feet, using gravel pits for additional storage, and continuing to use non-tributary ground water).<\/p>\n
The DEIS does not appear to give other water storage alternatives for water supply serious, objective consideration. Aquifer storage\/recharge, concerted efforts to increase water conservation, storing water in gravel pits, and storage in the existing Rueter-Hess Reservoir are briefly mentioned and dismissed. While none of these is a total solution, together they could provide the same benefits as the Chatfield Reallocation Project without tearing apart the Chatfield State Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Draft Feasibility Report \/ Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) explores only four alternatives in detail: “No Action” (storage of water in a to-be-constructed Penley Reservoir and downstream gravel pits), “Least Cost” (continuing to use non-renewable non-tributary ground water for upstream users and storing water for downstream users in gravel pits), Alternative 3 (raising the storage … Continue reading “Alternatives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-422","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422\/revisions\/426"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savechatfield.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}