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Water Supply Reserve Account – Grant and Loan Program Water Activity Summary Sheet Applicant: Amount Requested: Bauer Lake Water Company $40,000 Water Activity Name:Source of Funds: Bauer Lakes Water Basin Account $40,000 Company Dam Outlet Structure Upgrade Water Activity Purpose:Matching Funds: Structural water project Yes, $70,000 through a mix of member assessments, loans, and other grants County: Montezuma Drainage Basin: Mancos Water Source: Bauer Lake Water Activity Summary: Description of Applicant Bauer Lake Water Company is a private, shareholder based company. They have 24 members, 87 shares, 1532 acre feet in the reservoir, with each share representing 15 acre feet and 227 acre feet buffer. They have an annual assessment of $140 per share for operations, plus loan payments (variable by distance to their location and shares). The company does not have any plans for future growth. Their Articles of Incorporation are dated March 12, 1924. The Company provides irrigation and stock water to shareholders via ditches and pipeline (as of summer ’06). Most (but not all) of the shareholders are also shareholders in Lower Bauer West Lateral, Inc., a separate company formed to own and operate the pipeline that replaced much of the delivery ditch. A third entity, the Bauer Lake Club, is a separate, member based organization using the reservoir for a Fishing Club. Aside from evaporative losses, they do not consume water, but have ownership of shares of the lake. Overview of the Water Activity The project is to fix a 33 year old corrugated outlet pipe at Bauer Lake by installing a liner which would last a “lifetime” and allow this pipe through the dam to be pressurized to full lake head pressure (not currently possible). The dam outlet is currently connected to the distribution pipe through an open tank, with both the headgate and the individual distribution valves controlled manually. There is no means to coordinate supply volume (the headgate setting) with delivery volume (each user’s valve position) – a mismatch causes either failure to deliver or waste overflow down the creek. Two years of attempting to balance the system manually have been only marginally successful. This project consists of four tasks: (A)sleeve the 30” CMP outlet tube so that it can take pressure without risking leakage that could compromise the integrity of the dam (and a prerequisite for (C) below), (B)screen the headgate structure to prevent trash from blocking flow, (C)directly connect the outlet structure to the delivery pipeline for control, (D)add flow measurement ability to the pipeline. This is a retrofit request to bring the dam headgate / outlet structure up to current requirements and solve our ability to manage and measure flow. There are no water capture/usage issues that require government involvement (e.g. no new water capture and no new storage or usage changes over what is already well 1