Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-10-11
0CeQlS Of Voter
FOR Boulder
The JASPER RESERVOIR.
rhe Source of supply the Councils Water
Committee Gives its Approval

mo o"uisc VI supply the "AttT
Committee Gives its Approval.
The council has before it proposition
that will engage the best attention of
that body, if it is alive to the interests of
the people of this town. The water
question is a'serlous problem and it is
not wise that its consideration should be
delayed until another sprinkling season
is here. That the water committee is
alive to the Importance of this question
is shown by the report it submitted to
the council at its last meeting The
views of the committee were set forth in
the following report:
To the Honorable, the Manor and
Council OF the city OF Boulder:
GENTLEMEN: We, the undersigned,
the members OF the special committee
appointed 10 investigate and report, as
TO main source of water supply for the
city of Boulder, beg leave to submit the
following:
On Friday, the 18th day of August,
1899. we left Boulder and arrived in Ell
dora the evening of the same day Early
next morning we started for Jasper res
ervoir. situated in Section 9. TIP. 1, S, R
"a w. some two and one half miles south
of Pearl St. and IL miles west OF 9th ST
this city. This reservoir is situated
| about timber line. just under the i'm
| mense snow banks in the main water
shed lying south of a spur of the main
mountain ranges lying directly south of
| Arapahoe Peak. Here is great natur-
| al reservoir or basin, about one mile
| north of the main channel of the Middle
Boulder river. Across the south end of
| this basin is natural dam, with narrow
channels cut through in times past by
action of the water.
The main channel or outlet from this
has has been obstructed by an artih-
cial dam to a height of twenty (2o) feet.
The base of this dam IS forty (io) fee,
feet vide. Without Increasing The
width of the base the height Of this dam
can be increased twenty feet. The
height of the dam can be greatly in.
creased BY giving TO it greater width of
base. thus immensely increasing the
capacity of the reservoir. All this can
be done at a comparatively small outlay
Of money.
We submit. for temporary use, blue
prints showing government, survey and
capacity of the reservoir under the dam
as now constructed. and also capacity
with increas. of height of 20 feet.
We also submit a more elaborate Re.
port on this reservoir and uses to which
1t Can be put. That the city needs, now,
main source of supply of pure water,
and soon must have 1t. no one will dis,
pute. The waters of this reservoir are
from the immense snow banks by which
the reservoir is almost surrounded. Ly.
ing, as the basin does, near timber line
its waters are above possible pollution
as no mills or towns can be built above
it. If conveyed to the valley along the
main ridge between the two Boulders
the water would remain comparatively
pure. The supply is sufficient for cit,
many tunes larger than Boulder.
We are convinced that the City needs
this main source of supply. and that il
should take steps at once TO negotiate
for its acquisition.
ED HUBBARD, Chairman,
| EUGENE AUSTIN. lco;,,
| Lou JOHNSTON, o''@s'
| MIR Spencer Stevens, one OF the com,
pany and in control of a majority OF the
stock, states that this reservoir contains
a billion gallons of water and could fur.
nish the City two million gallons day
without another drop being turned in the
reservoir for year. The company of.
ters to sell to the city tor $4,000 and tc
give it its own time in which to pay with
six per cent interest. If the reservoir is
as represented and such a proposition is
before the council. to lose time in closing
with this company would seem, aftel
only casual investigation, to be almos
terminal in our municipal authorities.