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<br />Water Project Construction Loan Program - Project Data <br /> <br />Borrower: Bijou Irrigation District (District) <br /> <br />County: Morgan & Weld <br /> <br />Project Name: Empire Intake Canal <br />Diversion Structure <br /> <br />Project Type: Rehabilitation <br /> <br />Drainage Basin: South Platte <br /> <br />Water Source: So. Platte River <br /> <br />Total Project Cost: $720,000 <br /> <br />Funding Sources: CWCB, BID <br /> <br />Type of Borrower: Agricultural <br /> <br />Aver. Delivery: 15,900 acre-feet <br /> <br />CWCB STTFPBA Fund Loan: $654,480 <br />(inc!. 1% loan fee) <br /> <br />Interest Rate: 2.25% Term: 30 years <br /> <br />The District is a statutory Irrigation District (1905) and owns and operates Empire Reservoir located <br />west of Fort Morgan. It provides irrigation water to a 19,177-acre service area in Morgan County, <br />located between the reservoir and the City of Fort Morgan. In addition to the Reservoir, the District <br />owns and operates the diversion structure/headgate on the South Platte and the reservoir intake <br />and outlet canals. Water stored in the reservoir is delivered to users through a sister company, <br />Bijou Irrigation Company. Annual District headgate diversions are 50,970 acre-feet, and delivery <br />from the reservoir is about 15,900 acre-feet. The District diversion structure/head gate consists of <br />two components: 1) the ditch intake structure, which consists of a structure with 5 steel radial gates <br />to adjust flows into the Empire Intake Canal, which is in good condition, and 2) the river diversion <br />structure, used to divert flow into the canal intake structure, which is in need of significant repairs. <br />The diversion structure has suffered extreme damage in times of high flow in the river. It currently <br />uses a board system to control water levels in the river, and the structure has lost its effectiveness <br />due to large sand build-up on the upstream side. The current structure cannot be operated in a <br />manner to reduce the sand upstream of the intake gates, causing excessive sand to be drawn into <br />the intake canal, and hampering diversions into the inlet. The diversion also has a problem with <br />debris, mainly trees getting hung up, and requires continual maintenance. The proposed project <br />would make repairs to the river diversion portion of the structure by constructing a 100 foot long <br />gate structure and installation of an Obermeyer Pneumatic Spillway Gate (Bladder Gate), located <br />immediately adjacent to the canal intake structure. <br /> <br /> <br />.J~- <br />nq "I' a <br />a <br />I 0- <br />i '1 <br />~ <br />I 59_ <br /> <br />~ " i .. <br />f~:::';f;;;'l'~<io 61 r ~ j:.... _ L _.! <br />~'i~ --"""1--1 ! ci;iII'~'1 <br />, I <br />t~.. <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />Location Map <br />