C150163 Feasibility Study

• Contract/PO #: C150163
• Contractor Name: New Cache La Poudre Irrigating Company
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 3
• County: Weld
• Bill Number: 04-1221
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Water Rights

The Company holds direct flow water rights for a total of 650 cfs from the Cache
La Poudre River. The total amount was allocated in 5 decrees with appropriation
dates ranging from October, 25 1870 to May 24, 1977. The Company has filed
with the District Court, Water Division No. 1 for 2500 acre-feet of storage rights
for the reservoirs considered in this feasibility study. A copy of the Company's
current water rights application is contained in Appendix B. A summary of the
Company's existing water rights is in Table 2.

Table 2 - Existing Water Riohts
Priority Date
37 October 25, 1870
44 September15,1871
72 November 10, 1874
83 September 15, 1877
Case No. W-8059-75 May 24, 1977

Amount
11 0 cfs
170 cfs
184 cfs
121 cfs
65 cfs
650 cfs

Total

PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND ALTERNATIVES

Purpose

The purposes of the project are to provide water storage to equalize ditch flows,
to improve the efficiency and reliability of the New Cache La Poudre Irrigating
Company's system, to augment groundwater supplies to compensate for water
pumped from the wells, and to provide storage to meet excess demand in order
to benefit the shareholders and other water users in the Cache La Poudre and
South Platte river basins.

Alternatives

1. No action. (Approximately $300,000 per year)
2. Purchase storage shares in Glade Reservoir or other large storage
development project. (Approximately $1300/ac-ft.)
3. Construct equalizer, pipeline, and storage and augmentation reservoirs.
($ 9,542,000)

Alternative 1

The no action alternative leaves the system as it is and consequently does not
address the NCLPIC's needs. It does not provide an equalizer to increase
system efficiency. It does not provide groundwater augmentation. It does not
provide storage to compensate for shortages in the system. Currently, the
NCLPIC's supply is approximately 10,000 ac-ft short of demand based on rental
water requests. If the NCLPIC follows the no action alternative, it will incur

New Cache Feasibility Study

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