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<br />Feasibility of the <br />3T Cattle Company Augmentation Project <br /> <br />Project Sponsor <br /> <br />3T Cattle Company, Inc. (3T Cattle) is a cattle feedlot <br />operation. 3T Cattle is a Colorado corporation. 3T Cattle feeds <br />varying numbers of cattle throughout the year but has a maximum <br />lot capacity of 10,000 head. <br /> <br />The water for the feedlot is supplied by one tributary <br />groundwater well. The well can pump between 90 and 112 acre-feet <br />of water annually for a full feedlot. The well is currently <br />augmented under the Groundwater Appropriators of the South Platte <br />(GASP) plan of operation. See Appendix A for current GASP record. <br /> <br />Project Service Area <br /> <br />The service area of the 3T feedlot is located in Morgan County <br />about 6 miles southwest of Fort Morgan. The feedlot is located in <br />Section 23, Township 3 North, Range 58 West lying primarily south <br />of the Bijou Canal. A general location map of the project service <br />area is found in Appendix B. <br /> <br />Need for the Project <br /> <br />3T Cattle uses the one junior well to supply all of the water <br />required for its feedlot operations. The depletions from the <br />pumping of well must be replaced during times when there is a <br />"call" on the river by a senior downstream water right. There are <br />numerous downstream ditches and reservoirs which all have senior <br />water rights to the 3T Cattle well. Some of these rights are <br />close to 50 years senior to the well. GASP has successfully been <br />used for the past 30 years to cover the depletions on these <br />wells. However, GASP will cease to cover the augmentation needs <br />of this well on August 22, 2004. <br /> <br />3T Cattle needs to develop its own source of augmentation by the <br />August deadline in order to keep using the well. <br /> <br />Feasibility Study <br />3T Cattle Company Aug Project <br />April 2003 <br /> <br />1 <br />