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Feasibility Study Loveland Lake and Ditch Company Inlet Upgrade Project Introduction (Need for the Project) The Loveland Lake and Ditch Company (LL&D), located in Larimer County, operates the Loveland Reservoir and associated ditches for the benefit of the shareholders by storing water and providing direct flow irrigation water. LL&D appropriates water from the Big Thompson River just west of the town of Loveland, stores the water in Loveland Reservoir, and water deliveries are made through the Company's ditches to the 500- acre service area. The goal of this project is to increase the capacity of the inlet so that when the reservoir is in priority we are able to take much more water than the current inlet allows. Currently, the inlet pipe has a capacity of 2OCFS. Our first decree for water appropriated from the Big Thompson River, allows us to fill the reservoir at a rate of 50CFS. The other two decrees describe filling the reservoir at greater rates; 60CFS and then 250CFS. However, at the time those decrees were written, and up until the early 1970's, the reservoir was filled through a ravine of "limitless capacity" as described in the decrees. In the early 1970's the owner of the property through which this ravine runs complained that running water through the ravine was causing erosion of his property. To settle the complaint, the company and property owner agreed to install an underground 18inch line from the Handy Ditch and into the reservoir. While the flow capacity of the 18inch line was severely restrictive as compared to that of the ravine, it was not considered to be a problem. This was because at that time the reservoir was kept full primarily from waste water running off the fields being flood irrigated to the north and west, and the inlet pipe was not often needed to fill the lake. Today the land to the north and west of the reservoir is no longer being farmed. It is going under residential and commercial development. With this change we now rely almost exclusively upon our appropriations from the Big Thompson River to fill the reservoir. That being the case, when the reservoir is in priority, the greater the flow capacity of our inlet then the greater our chances of being able to fill the reservoir before it goes out of priority. Project Sponsor The LL&D is a mutual ditch company and a non-profit corporation registered in the State of Colorado. There are 48 shareholders and 150 shares of stock. The LL&D shareholders have the power to set annual assessments to be paid by the shareholders. The LL&D Directors, of which there are 5, have the power to cut off water deliveries to shareholders that fail to pay their assessments, and the power to offer stock for sale to Loveland Lake and Ditch Company Inlet Structure Upgrade Feasibility Study February 1,2008 7 of 47