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<br />North Poudre Irrigation Company <br />March 16-17. 2004 <br /> <br />Agenda Item 25c <br /> <br />The NPIC has an office in Wellington, and operates 22 storage reservoirs and approximately 200 ) <br />miles of ditches. Their service area is located in northeastern Larimer County, north of the City of <br />Fort Collins, extending several miles east of 1-25. The total service area is approximately 42,000 <br />acres of which NPIC provides water for irrigation for approximately 28,000 acres. The irrigated <br />acreage within the service area is primarily used to grow corn, sugar beets, soybeans, hay, and <br />feed crops. Average annual delivery is 44,400 acre-feet. NPIC has done considerable <br />rehabilitation work on their system, with the assistance of 8 CWCB loans. The earliest loan dates <br />back to 1982, and the most recent one was approved in 2001. <br /> <br />Feasibilitv Studies <br /> <br />Ron H. Slosson, P.E. of Fort Collins has completed the feasibility study in accordance with CWCB <br />guidelines. The study includes an assessment of alternatives to rehabilitate the existing dam and <br />reservoir to retain the decreed storage rights in Miner's Lake. <br /> <br />North Poudre Irriaatiion Company <br /> <br />The NPIC is a mutual ditch company and a non-profit corporation registered in the State of <br />Colorado. There are 646 shareholders and 10,000 shares of stock. Currently the stock ownership <br />is divided as 35% agricultural and 65% municipal (middle-income.) Over half of the municipal stock <br />is owned by the City of Fort Collins, and the remainder shared by approximately 8 water districts <br />and small communities in Larimer and Weld Counties. NPIC has the power to set annual <br />assessments to be paid by the shareholders, the power to cut off water deliveries to shareholders <br />that fail to pay their assessments, and the power to offer stock for sale to pay back assessments. <br /> <br />Water Riahts <br /> <br />Miner's Lake is an off-stream reservoir, and is filled by waters diverted either out of the North Fork <br />of the Cache La Poudre through the North Poudre Ditch, or by waters of the Cache La Poudre River <br />diverted by the North Poudre Supply Canal (Munroe Ditch). By appropriation dated March 1, 1883 <br />priority Number 7, NPIC is allowed to store water to a depth of ten feet above the base of the outlet <br />pipe to a capacity of 436 acre feet in the reservoir. By appropriation dated October 1, 1888 priority <br />Number 16, NPIC is allowed storage of an additional four feet making the total storage depth 14 <br />feet and a capacity of 674 acre feet. Also, NPIC is entitled to one refilling of the reservoir, up to <br />459 acre feet, by Reservoir Refill Priority No. 1361 as of December 31, 1921. <br /> <br />Proiect Description <br /> <br />The purpose of this project is to make the repairs and modifications necessary to retain the decreed <br />storage rights at Miner's Lake. The water rights cannot be transferred and NPIC is in danger of <br />losing some of these rights if the repairs are not made. Rehabilitation of the reservoir to the full <br />decreed capacity will enable NPIC to provide irrigation water to shareholders and trade or sell water <br />to other entities. Three alternatives were considered: <br /> <br />1. The no-action alternative. <br />2. Rehabilitate the dam, outlet works, and spillway. <br />3. Rehabilitate the dam, outlet works, and spillway and remove accumulated silt. <br /> <br />Page 2 of 6 <br />