LPPD000391

• Contract/PO #: C153715
• Contractor Name: Lower Arkansas Water Management Association
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 67
• County: Prowers
• Bill Number: SB 96-124
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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March 1996 Final

of consumptive use. In addition, the remaining 362 acre-feet of LAWMA account water

would have ~een transferred into the Kansas Art~c1eU ~count. ________ \
- 61 s--.S b +-1,3f/ I- .2 $ C .f 3'62 ~ /; 113 4L ,

The shortfall under these conditions would have amounted to~ acre-feet of

consumable water. It is therefore recommended that LAWM~!!ional 1,50Q

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acre-feet of consumable water. At an average water cost of $800 per acre-foot, this 1,500
acre-feet can be purchased for $1.2 million, which is the hoped-for proceeds from sale of the
X-V Ranch property. Shares in the Amity Mutual Irrigation Company are attractive for at least
half of this shortfall. The depletions from the revegetation efforts on the X- Y Ranch and any
continuing water uses that may be involved with the sale of property to the Division of
Wildlife should be included in the historical depletions to Usable Stateline Flow, so it is not
necessary to include these depletions in the calculations.2.J

ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL ANAL VSIS

LAWMA has applied to the CWCB for a loan of $3.75 million. The money will be used
to complete the purchases of the X-V Ranch and its associated water rights, certain additional
interests in the X-V water rights amounting to 2.5 cfs, and the remaining 4,680 shares in the
Manvel Canal and Irrigation Company. LAWMA intends to market the 4,500 acres of land
associated with the X-V Ranch and to use the proceeds to purchase additional water rights
to cover the projected shortfall in replacement water. Proceeds not needed for the purchase
of additional water rights will be returned to the CWCB and applied against the loan principal.

LAWMA's 1996 dues have been figured using the following schedule:

Type A, irrigation - $275 per well plus $2.40 per acre-foot pumped.
Type B, irrigation - $375 per well plus $2.40 per acre-foot pumped.
Type C, commercial - $275 per well
Type M, municipal - $275 per well
Exempt - $275 per well
Inactive - $1 50 per well

2 The average well pumping on the X-V Ranch was estimated in the July 1995 report at 7,888 acre-feet
annually. While most of the consumptive use on the ranch was probably attributable to the surface water used
on the ranch, there undoubtedly was some consumptive use attributable to the well water, and is reflected in the
7,976 acre-feet of annual depletions to Usable Stateline Flow.

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