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SYSTEM OVERVIEW <br />The Greeley Loveland Irrigation Company is a significant irrigation ditch company in Water <br />Division 1, Water District 4, providing direct flow water and storage water to irrigators located <br />north of the Big Thompson River and south of the Cache la Poudre River between Interstate 25 <br />and the City of Greeley. The Greeley Loveland Irrigation Company (GLIC) developed from the <br />purchase, and subsequent reorganization, of the Greeley Loveland and Land Company and the <br />Lake Loveland Company, two companies established by British investors in the late-1800s. The <br />Seven Lakes Company was independently set up in the early-1900s to develop seven storage <br />units within the GLIC service area. Boyd Lake, also within the GLIC service area, was <br />constructed in the early-1900s to provide storage water for local irrigators. Boyd Lake went <br />through various ownerships prior to being purchased by GLIC in the 1920s. The Greeley <br />Loveland Irrigation Company Lake Loveland, and the Seven Lakes Company are operated <br />together to provide irrigation water to farmers holding variable amounts of stock ownership in <br />the three companies. The operation of these entities in total will be referred to herein under the <br />pseudonym GLIC since the Greeley Loveland Irrigation Company operates the canals and <br />storage units owned by the three companies. <br />Changes of use have been adjudicated for some of the ditch company and reservoir company <br />shares, predominantly by the City of Greeley and Central Colorado Water Conservancy District <br />(CCWCD). The City of Loveland also owns and has changed portions of its share ownership in <br />the GLIC system. <br />Key structures identified in the GLIC System are as follows (with structure name from Decision <br />Support System HydroBase database in parentheses, if different): <br />1) Barnes Ditch <br />2) Loveland Greeley Canal -Commonly referred to as the Loveland Greeley Canal west of <br />Interstate 25 and referred to as the Greeley Loveland Canal east of Interstate 25 <br />3) GLIC Reservoir System <br />• Lake Loveland (Loveland Greeley Reservoir) <br />• Horseshoe Lake and the Seven Lakes System (Horseshoe No. 2) <br />• Boyd Lake <br />• Houts Reservoir and Equalizer Lake <br />The general locations of the Greeley Loveland Irrigation Company, Lake Loveland, and Seven <br />Lakes Company systems and associated structures are shown on Figure 1. <br />Greeley Loveland Irrigation Company Operating Memorandum.doc 2 of 18 January 5, 2005 <br />