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<br /> <br />the canal by Dille Diversion Dam and utilized for power generation at Big Thompson Power <br />plant. <br /> <br />Project water deliveries and Big Thompson River water to be returned to the river are dropped <br />through a chute from the feeder canal ahead of the siphon crossing, or are passed through the Big <br />Thompson Power plant to convert the available head to electric energy. <br /> <br />Horsetooth Reservoir is west of Fort Collins between two hogback ridges, where Horsetooth <br />Dam closes the gap at one end. Soldier, Dixon, and Spring Canyon Dams and Satanka Dike <br />close the remaining gaps. An outlet at Soldier Canyon Dam supplies water to the City of Fort <br />Collins, three rural domestic water districts, Colorado State University, and the Dixon Feeder <br />Canal for the irrigated area cut off from its original water supply by the reservoir. The principal <br />outlet from Horsetooth Reservoir is through Horsetooth Dam into the Charles Hansen Supply <br />Canal. This canal delivers water to a chute discharging into the Cache la Poudre River and to a <br />siphon crossing the river to supply the Windsor Reservoir and Canal Company. A turnout from <br />the Supply Canal supplies the City of Greeley municipal water works. Water is delivered to the <br />river to replace, by exchange, that water diverted upstream to the North Poudre Supply Canal, <br />which conveys it to the North Poudre Irrigation Company System. <br /> <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />