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has been delivered to the South Platte River. Storage carry-over of unused allotment to the next <br />year is not permitted and any unused allotment will be reallocated the following year. <br />Water entitlement within Fort Morgan Reservoir and Irrigation Company is based on the number <br />of Fort Morgan shares owned. There are no allotments of direct flow or storage water per share, <br />rather each shareholder is entitled to a pro-rata share of the amount of water running in the ditch. <br />Fort Morgan is responsible for making direct flow diversions and requesting storage releases to <br />maintain sufficient yet sustainable flow in the canal for all users requesting water. Decisions <br />regarding the amount of water to be diverted each day are based on available storage supply, <br />whether the direct flow right is in priority, and how many users have requested water deliveries. <br />Fort Morgan owns shares in the Company. Privately held water rights, e.g. individual share <br />ownership in the Company or other irrigation systems, are not used in the Fort Morgan service <br />area. Fort Morgan is not a common carrier and will therefore not deliver water under privately <br />owned water rights. The Fort Morgan Canal will only deliver water owned by the Fort Morgan <br />Reservoir and Irrigation Company. <br />The Fort Morgan augmentation plan consists of a direct flow water right, decreed in 1972, and <br />multiple recharge facilities within the Fort Morgan service area. The recharge credits gained <br />from this augmentation plan offset depletions from 91 wells owned by individuals under the Fort <br />Morgan service area. Over 4,000 acre-feet of water was diverted into recharge facilities last <br />year. The Fort Morgan Reservoir and Irrigation Company filed an additional water rights <br />application in 2004. The application includes an augmentation plan and associated water rights <br />involving a series of new augmentation wells. <br />Fort Morgan Canal delivers irrigation water to 62 individual turnouts. The turnouts, all of which <br />are measured, may serve more than one user or farm, and farms may be served by more than one <br />turnout. The first Fort Morgan turnout is located approximately one mile downstream of the <br />diversion. Fort Morgan employs two ditch riders for the entire service area. Water users must <br />contact the riders by noon the day before they want their water or to change a water request, <br />allowing for ample time to determine diversions for the next day. <br />Lands under the Fort Morgan Canal are irrigated using sprinkler systems and flood irrigation. <br />Use of sprinklers has become a more common practice over the last decade (40% sprinkler use, <br />60% flood irrigation). Typically, the sprinklers are operated using both ground water and surface <br />water co-mingled in an on-site pond. Some users have concrete lined their delivery ditches from <br />the canal to decrease seepage losses. <br />1) Jackson Lake Inlet (Structure ID 0100513) <br />The Jackson Lake Inlet headgate is located on the north side of the South Platte River and is the <br />only inlet to the reservoir. The unlined canal travels in a general easterly direction paralleling <br />the river until terminating at the reservoir. The diversion structure at the river consists of ten 10 <br />foot wide Obermeyer® pneumatic gates. <br />Length: Approximately 11 miles <br />Jackson Lake Reservoir System Page 5 of 14 <br />