Southwest - Bauer Lakes Dam Outlet Upgrade_Water Activity Summary

• Basin Roundtable: Southwest
• Applicant: Bauer Lakes Water Company
• Description: Bauer Lakes Water Company Dam Outlet Structure Upgrade
• Account Source: Basin
• Board Meeting Date: 3/19/2008
• Contract/PO #: 10000000084
• WSRA - Doc Type: Water Activity Summary Sheet - CWCB Evaluation/Approval Documents

Source Amount Percent
Member Assessment $27,000 25%
Member Loan (SWCD) $28,000 25%
(total member share 50%)
SWCD grant $15,000 14%
CWCB* $40,000 36%
Total $110,000 100%
* Through the Basin Roundtable

Note: the members also currently carry an approximately $83,400 loan from CWCB (through the Lower
Bauer West Lateral) and $17,700 (two loans) from the SWCD. The SWCD loans would be increased by
$28,000. They are current on all loans.

Discussion:
This project will help improve the operations of a local agricultural water project. It will resolve control and
safety issues with the current structure and provide the following benefits:
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Allows a self regulating system without the overflow waste (currently roughly estimated at 20% of
the usage) better satisfying the Salinity project goals that were justification for the installation of the
Lower Bauer pipe.
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Provides water under full head pressure so members at the top of the pipe can get water (currently
unreliable).
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Allow accurate measurement of water discharge at the headgate (installing a flow meter at the
headgate). Total volume is currently approximated by summing the individual user’s meters.

The Board examined this project and denied a WSRA application at their September 2007 meeting. The
applicants had requested a mix of funding from the Statewide Account and the Southwest Basin Account.
The Board did not fund the application at that time for the following reasons:
“While it appears that this project is of great value to the Bauer Lake Company it does not meet
multiple needs (24 members of the Company) or multiple purposes or multiple basin needs. The
funding request does not put new water to beneficial use and appears to primarily focus on resolving
operating difficulties with and existing pipeline/ditch delivery system.”

“The proposed project does not meet enough of the evaluation criteria to justify funding from the
Statewide Account.”

At that time, the Board recommended that if the applicant and Basin Roundtable wished to pursue the
project, they should reexamine the amount of money requested from the Basin and Statewide Accounts (mix
of basin, statewide and local match), explore a revision/increase in their loan, and/or look to additional
shareholder participation.

The current application is a result of that recommendation. The basic outline of the project has not changed;
rather the shareholders are funding a greater portion of the overall project and the applicant is not seeking
funding from the Statewide Account.

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