RGDSS_Task4_CentennialDitchCo_Interview

• Title: RGDSS Task 4 - Basin Interviews
• Description: Memo documenting interview with Centennial Irrigation Ditch Company.
• Decision Support - Doc Type: Task Memorandum
• Date: 6/22/1999
• DSS Category: Surface Water
• DSS: Rio Grande
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Contract/PO #: C153863
• Grant Type: Non-Reimbursable
• Bill Number: HB98-1189, SB99-173
• Prepared By: Leonard Rice Engineering

RGDSS Memorandum
Final
TO: Ray Bennett
FROM: Ed Armbruster, Hydrosphere
SUBJECT: RGDSS Surface Water, Task 4.7 -Centennial Irrigation Ditch Company
Interview
DATE: June 22, 1999
CC: Randy Seaholm
Introduction
This memorandum represents partial delivery (1 of 12 interviews) associated with Task 4.7, Ditch
Operator Interviews /Prepare Summary Memoranda. The objective of this task is as follows:
Meet with large and/or critical ditch companies in the San Luis Talley to discuss their
facilities and operations.
On March 26, 1999, an interview was conducted with Mr. Greg Higel of the Centennial Irrigation
Ditch Company (Company). The purpose of this interview was to develop a better understanding
of Ditch Company facilities and operations such that this information could be reflected in
surface water modeling efforts associated with the Rio Grande Decision Support System
(RGDSS). The following discussion summarizes information developed during this interview.
Ditch Company Structure and Organization
Centennial Irrigation Ditch Company
1990 South 102 Road
Alamosa, CO
81101
Telephone: [phone]
President:
Vice President:
Secretary:
Board of Directors:
Ditch Rider (Water Superintendent)
Jim Higel
Maurice Stillings
Mary Lynn Stillings
Jim Higel
Maurice Stillings
Doug Shriver
Harold Ziegler
Bill Rogers
Greg Higel
The Centennial Irrigation Ditch Company is a mutual ditch company that was formed in the late
1890s. The Company is managed by a group of corporate officers and a five member Board of
Directors.
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