Cottonwood Ditch Company
The Cottonwood Ditch Co. near Boulder, Colorado was founded in May of 1863 to provide water from the South Boulder Creek to farms along either side of the Dry Creek valley.
Boulder County water budget
Boulder County, Colorado has a 2010 census population of 294,567 people, an area of 740 square miles (473,600 acres) and a annual precipitation of 14.13 inches Longmont, 20.66 Boulder, 28.47 Nederland Since the county is roughly half mountainous (average precipitation 28 inches), and half plains (average precipitation 17 inches) the average precipitation of the county is around 22.5 inches.
This means that a total precipitation of 888,000 acre-feet of water falls on the county in the average year. This is more than 3 acre-feet, or more than 982,000 gallons per person in the county, 2,691 gallons per day!
The average American uses 80-100 gallons of water per day, 3% of that total. So what's the big deal with water usage? Don't we have more than plenty?
Distribution
City of Boulder only has reservoir storage of 26,000 acre feet.
Saving water is actually about keeping it from going downstream too fast.
1,604 acre feet of water run in 2014
