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WATER RIGHTS <br />Early in its development, the City acquired direct flow rights in the upper Cache la Poudre River <br />basin to provide a consistent, high quality drinking water supply. These supplies are <br />supplemented by other direct flow and storage rights in the Cache la Poudre River basin along <br />with transbasin water from the Laramie River basin. Greeley currently has significant share <br />ownership in the GLIC system in the Big Thompson River basin. Transbasin supplies from the <br />C-BT and Windy Gap projects complete Greeley's potable water supply portfolio. <br />Three-eighths ownership in Canal No. 3 was granted to the City in the early 1870s when the <br />canal was constructed through town and the ditch company was established. In order to improve <br />the quality of water supply, the City purchased 12.5 cfs of senior priorities in the Whedbee Ditch <br />in 1907 (5 cfs) and the Boyd Freeman Ditch in 1925 (7.5 cfs). The 12.5 cfs of direct flow rights <br />are available for Greeley's use year-round. Since the Bellvue Filter Plant was constructed in the <br />early-1900s, the City has used its Canal No. 3 water supplies for non-potable uses. The City <br />came into ownership of the pre-1900 Laramie River priorities in the Bob Creek Ditch and <br />Columbine Ditch as part of the high mountain storage purchase from the Mountain and Plains <br />Reservoir Company in 1947. All of the City's Cache la Poudre River basin reservoir storage <br />provides late season deliveries with carry-over storage capacity provided by Barnes Meadow <br />Reservoir and Milton Seaman Reservoir. <br />The City began requiring water rights dedication as a condition of annexation in the mid-1970s <br />with the early dedications coming from the GLIC shares in the Big Thompson River basin. This <br />system has a relatively junior water right but has access to over 70,000 ac-ft of storage, owned <br />by the Lake Loveland Company and the Seven Lakes Reservoir Company, which can be used to <br />firm up the direct flow supplies. The City has changed a portion of its GLIC share ownership. A <br />supplemental supply available to the City comes from its ownership of C-BT and Windy Gap <br />units. <br />The combination of water supplies and storage in three river basins and the approach to maintain <br />adequate water supplies and redundancy in its water resources delivery system provides <br />sufficient water supplies for Greeley throughout the range of wet, dry and average hydrologic <br />cycles. <br />Direct Flow Rights /Historic Ilse Credits <br />• Laramie River and Cache la Poudre River direct flow rights from Civil Action Numbers <br />2100, 5326, 5993, and Case Number 87CW041 are summarized in Table 3. <br />Page 13 of 21 <br />