C153787 Articles of Incorporation

• Contract/PO #: C153787
• Contractor Name: Smith Irrigation Ditch
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 44
• County: Routt
• Bill Number: SPL
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Contract Documents

April 2, 1997

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Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District

William E. Greene, P.E.
Manager of Planning
Colorado Water Conservation Board
721 Centennial Bldg.
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, CO 80203

Subject: Smith Ditch Project

Dear Bill:

This is in response to several questions you asked over the phone last week:

1) Regarding water rights, Kent Holt with Division 6 of Water Resources has provided
this paragraph entitled Hydrology and Water Administration and a tabulation of
water rights.

Elkhead Creek - Hydrolooy and Water Administration

The Elkhead Creek drainage near Craig is composed mostly of
sagebrush and mountain shrub vegetation on relatively
impervious geologic formations. Most of the drainage area lies
at an elevation of between 7000-9000 feet with very little high
elevation drainage. The runoff from Elkhead Creek occurs in the
spring as a result of snowmelt. Peak runoff of 1000-2000 cfs
occurs about the 1 st of May in normal years. Rainfall events are
normally insignificant.

Water availability on Elkhead Creek for irrigation is generally
good through the middle of July when the available water drops
to a base flow of less than 5 cfs. There has not been a call on
Elkhead Creek in the last 25 years. Because of the small amount
of total diversion from the creek and steep slope on the
descending limb of the hydrograph, administrative calls will yield
very little additional water to senior rights.

2) Enclosed is a letter to the Corps requesting a letter similar to the one of the Cary
Ditch Project.

3) We have a verbal commitment from the officers of the Great Northern District that
once their district is dissolved, the Smith Ditch Project will receive the residual
balance. We estimate this to be $12,000.

Phone: [phone] Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80488-0339