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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Chapter II - Description of Sponsoring Entity <br /> <br />Chapter II - Description of Sponsoring Entity <br /> <br />The Greeley and Loveland Irrigation Company, as it is known today, was officially <br />established in 1903. However the Company actually obtained its roots from the original British <br />formulation of the Loveland and Greeley Irrigation and Land Company in 1881, intending to expand <br />the Barnes and Chubbock Ditches. It was this establishment, which was responsible for purchasing <br />the land in 1882 to build Lake Loveland. The second version of the company was organized in 1891 <br />by a new set of British investors, now calling themselves the New Loveland and Greeley Irrigation <br />Company. This entity was responsible for the actual construction of Lake Loveland in 1894, which <br />at its time was seen as one of the more impressive engineering feats in the turn of the century. In <br />\~ OO~, the British investors sold the company and reservoir system to a group of local farmers who <br />were more adept to irrigating the arid region than were the British. <br /> <br />>( <br /> <br />Seven Lakes Reservoir Company was also formed in 1900 to acquire storage reservoirs and <br />reservoir sites. Seven Lakes Reservoir Company does not have a delivery system and its water has <br />always been delivered through the canal system of the Greeley and Loveland Irrigation Company. <br /> <br />The Company owns and operates an extensive system of reservoirs and canals for the <br />irrigation of thousands of acres of lands in Larimer and Weld counties. The Company owns and <br />controls Lake Loveland, Boyd Lake, and the Equalizer and Houts Lake Reservoirs as well as the Big <br />Barnes Ditch and Greeley and Loveland Irrigation Canal diversion points on the Big Thompson <br />River. The Seven Lakes Reservoir Company owns and controls Horseshoe Lake, Westerdoll Lake, <br />Heinricy Lake, and Upper and Lower Hoffman Lakes. The interchange facilities of the system to <br />exchange water between the two companies have developed over the years to afford greater use of <br />the water. <br /> <br />The Company is a corporation formed "to purchase, acquire, own, operate, use, control, <br />manage, superintend and maintain canals and ditches for irrigating and domestic purposes, to <br />which water is intended to be applied; and more especially to purchase, acquire, own, use, operate, <br />control, manage, superintend and maintain that certain canal and its appropriations heretofore <br /> <br />Boyd Lake Dam Outlet System Feasibility Study <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />1f30VLE <br />