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The Water Commissioner from Water District 1 collects the records from the Peggram check <br />structure during designated times of augmentation. <br />Additional filings have been made in recent years to provide supplemental augmentation credits <br />for use in the Company's previously decreed plan. In addition to providing augmentation to any <br />irrigation well in the System boundaries, the current plan allows any non-System well user in an <br />area serviceable by Bijou Canal to take part in the plan. The irrigation well user must build a <br />private augmentation pond and pay apro-rata share of legal fees to receive deliveries from the <br />System for their private augmentation pond. The user and System evenly split the recharge <br />credits. <br />Transmountain Water <br />The Company owns approximately 980 units of C-BT water, which were historically owned by <br />individuals in the System. When individuals owned the C-BT units, the water was directly <br />delivered to the System lands. Company owned C-BT units are now either leased out or <br />exchanged with another user. In the past, the Company has traded their C-BT units with other <br />users who have reservoir water to lease. <br />Groundwater Rights <br />There are over 200 irrigation wells within the System, with an average pumping rate of 1200 <br />gallons per minute. Approximately 90 percent of the land owners within the System have wells. <br />Well usage provides a significant supplemental irrigation supply, with an average of 25,000 acre- <br />feet of consumptive use augmented each year System-wide. <br />Administration <br />Administration of the water rights associated with the District involves interaction with the <br />Water District 1 Water Commissioner and the Division 1 Engineer. The System is more often in <br />contact with these individuals during periods of storage and augmentation. The Secretary is also <br />in contact with the representatives from the Putnam Ditch Company and the Corona Ranch <br />during times of irrigation deliveries to those lands. <br />Operations of the System are effected by an agreement made with the Putnam Ditch Company <br />back in the early years of the System. Putnam's service area is located between the Bijou Canal <br />and the South Platte River just upstream of the Empire Reservoir. Originally, the Company <br />owned 56.32 cfs in direct flow decrees and found that there were difficulties in diverting and <br />delivering that small amount of water. Due to the location of the Putnam's service area, an <br />agreement was made between Putnam and the Company to pull the Putnam direct flow water of <br />40 cfs with the Company's decreed water to gain a larger head of water. Conflicts arose between <br />the two entities regarding service times. In 1941, the State Supreme Court ruled that the two <br />entities shall share and rotate usage of the total 96.32 cfs. Putnam can use the Company's 56.32 <br />cfs in addition to their 40 cfs for half of the season and the Company can use the total 96.32 for <br />the other half of the season. Putnam and the Company rotate these water rights every eight days. <br />Bijou Irrigation System 12 of 13 <br />