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Water Use in Pueblo and Alternative Uses of the Water Proposed for Use in Xcel’s 3 rd Unit of the Coal Plant (“Comanche 3” )
Prepared June 2005 with Data From the Pueblo Board of Water Works
| Top Water Users in Pueblo 1 | Gallons Used in 2004 1 | Acre Feet in 2004 2 | Number of these facilities that could be supported with the Commanche coal plant 3water. |
| 1) Rocky Mountain Steel | 233,523,000 | 717 | 7+ |
| City of Pueblo | 217,906,000 | 668 | 8+ |
| CO Mental Health Institute | 167,411,000 | 374 | 10+ |
| Colorado State Univ-Pueblo | 121,743,000 | 306 | 14+ |
| Pueblo School District #60 | 99,854,000 | 232 | 17+ |
| Pueblo Country Club | 75,860,000 | 198 | 23+ |
| Trane Company | 64,738,000 | 193 | 27+ |
| B. F. Goodrich | 63,113,000 | 173 | 28+ |
| Pueblo Housing Authority | 56,486,000 | 149 | 31+ |
| St. Mary Corwin Hospital | 48,809,000 | 119 | 36+ |
| Imperial Memorial Gardens | 39,050,000 | 46+ | |
1) Information on use of treated water in 2004 from Pueblo Board of Water Works 2) To calculate acre feet, take the number of gallons used in 2004 and divide by 325,851 gallons in an acre foot. 3) This assumes that the proposed Unit 3 of the coal plant would use 5500 acre feet. The actual number is confidential, but this is close. The coal plant would use untreated water. |
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