C150208 Feasibility Study

• Contract/PO #: C150208
• Contractor Name: High Line Canal Company
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 17
• County: Otero
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

PERMITTING

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FINANCIAL PLAN, INCLUDING CREDIT WORTHINESS AND
ALTERNATIVE FINANCING CONSIDERATIONS

(refer to Appendix D)

OPINION OF FEASmILITY

There are no expected or anticipated roadblocks to prevent the High tine Canal
Company from successfully completing the Smith Arroyo siphon replacement project.
The primary benefit of a new siphQnsystem will help to ensure agairtst a potential
failure of the existing deteriorated pipeline system and the delivery of irrigation water
to downstream users, as well as allow for the reduced maintenance of a new system
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COLLATERAL

(refer to Appendix D)

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND PHYSICAL IMPACTS

The High Line Canal Replacement Siphon Pipeline Project should h~ve no adverse
social impacts because the siphon pipeline system is located in a rur~ area generally
remote from landowners living in Otero County. There will be no re~reational
activities created by the project.

A positive economic impact to the High Line Canal Company will be the assurance
that the 334-cfs irrigation water right demand downstream can be met without a
potential collapse or other failure of the otherwise existing siphon pipeline system.
This condition also applies to the leasing of future irrigation. water st;lpplies to points
north (or other).

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Only during project construction will there be a temporary adverse ~hysical impact at
the siphon pipeline crossing of Smith Arroyo, however, the planned ponstruction
activities are to occur primarily locally within the High Line Canal Company easement
limits for the irrigation canal. The local area of disturbance due to the project
construction activities shall be less than one (1) acre total in size.

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No Environmental Assessment (EA) or Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
reporting shall be required for this Smith Arroyo replacement siphon pipeline project.
This project is associated only with agricultural irrigation water use and all related
construction work shall be limited only to the existing High Line Canal locally at the
Smith Arroyo crossing and within the IOO-foot wide easement limits of the High Line
Canal. The Design Team, however, will notify the U. S. Army CorpS of Engineers