WSP12418

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 11/1/1986
• Author: Warner Sunada Hartwe
• Title: Recharge as Augmentation in the South Platte River Basin
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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2,2,6 Pioneer Water and Irrigation Company

The Pioneer Water and Irrigation Company has a temporary

augmentation plan for five recharge sites. The irrigation company was

formed to develop a plan of augmentation for well owners under the Tremont

and Smith-Snyder ditch system, The total area irrigated under this ditch

system is about 2,800 acres. About 28 irrigation wells are included in the

plan of augmentation, The five recharge sites are: (5A) Pioneer Ditch,

(5B) Woodward West Lake, (5C) Snyder Lake, (5D) Woodward East Lake and (5E)

Peterson-Pioneer recharge site. These sites are located north of the South

Platte River and northeast of the city of Fort Morgan (Figure 4), All of

the sites were started in either 1982 or 1983. Historically, the Pioneer

Ditch and the Woodward East and West Lake sites have been the major recharge.

sites. The estimated recharge capacity of these sites is about 30 acre-ft

per day. Spring flooding of farmland between Woodward East Lake and the

South Platte River has been a problem in the past. A network of 15

observation wells were installed in the vicinity of this site to detect

whether the recharge operations at Woodward East Lake was responsible for

this flooding. These wells were monitored for two years on a'monthly basis.

Indications are that recharge operations at Woodward East Lake were not the

cause of this flooding, Current diversion information was not available for

two of the.five sites. The other sites had total diversions of about 3,700

acre-ft for 1985. Table 5 summarizes the Pioneer recharage sites.

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