BOARD00179 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2007
• Description: Director's Report - CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Terms of Loan: $312,595 @2.50% for320-yearsl Project Type: Well Augmentation

The Union Ditch Company provides irrigaiion water to an area of 5,500 acres east of
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the Town of LaSalle and south of Greeley. IThe Union Ditch Company has filed
application for an augmentation plan to pr~)Vide replacement water for 40 junior
wells owned by the shareholders, formerlyiserviced by GASP. This project involves
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the development of 3 recharge ponds, placement of flow measurement devices, and
headgate structures into the ponds. The pbnds will be filled by gravity flow from
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the Union Ditch. Union Ditch Company is currently constructing one recharge
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pond at the Miller Feedlot Site with an accqmpany diversion structure on the Union
Ditch. The overall augmentation efforts ar~ anticipated to be completed by the fall
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of 2007.

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22. Pinewood Springs Water District - ~aw Water Pipeline
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Authorization: Severance Tax Fund i County: Larimer
Water Source: South Platte I Project Yield: 51 acre-feet
Terms of Loan: $2,033,850 @4.0% for 30 yrs. I Project Type: Raw Water

The Pinewood Springs Water District is located ~ast of Estes Park on US 36 and provides
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water to 268 taps with a projected build out of 35p taps. Their current water supply is from
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the Little Thompson River, which they treat withj a micro-filtration unit. The District has
no water storage and has been greatly impacted by the on-going drought. This project
will provide the following water components: cdnstruction of 51 acre-foot Crow Lane
Reservoir No.1, a new pump station, 5500 linear Ifeet of 6-inch transmission pipe,
modifications to their infiltration gallery, and the!purchase of 90 shares of CBT water. The
pipeline portion of the project was bid in April o~ 2006, with the low bidder being Temple
Construction, at a bid price of $510,000. This wqrk has been completed. Work on the
pump station commenced in the fall of 2006 and ~as been completed and tested. The
construction of the reservoir has been delayed d~e land acquisition problems and final SEO
review. The overall project is anticipated to be c9mplete and operational by December of

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Hope Ditch Company - Well Replacement
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I County: Adams
, Project Yield: 11.5 AF
Project Type: Well Replacement

Authorization: Construction Fund
Water Source: Well- Denver Basin
Terms of Loan: $153,OOO@3.75% for 30 yrs.

The Hope Ditch Company provides water to a Piortion of the Wiesner Subdivision,
located in Adams County. The Company's existing well drilled in 1963, provided
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domestic water to 23 homes in the subdivision. lOver the years the existing well casing
has significantly deteriorated, causing the well ~roduction to go from 30 gpm to 7 gpm.

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