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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form <br />Form Revised May 2007 <br />Part A. - Description of the Applicant (Project Sponsor or Okvner); <br />Applicant Naive(s): <br />SANTA MARIA RESERVOIR COMPANY <br />P.O. Box 288 <br />Mailing address: Monte Vista, CO 81144 <br />Taxpayer ID#: 84-0418055 <br />Phone Numbers: Business: <br />Home: <br />Fax: <br />Email address: pleasant@fone.net <br />719-852-3556 <br />719-852-5847 <br />719-852-3833 <br />Person to contact regarding this application if different from above: <br />Name: <br />Position/Title <br />Ron Peterson <br />President <br />3. Provide a brief description of your organization below: see "Description of Applicant" in Part 2 of Criteria <br />and Guidance for required information. <br />Organization & History: Santa Maria Reservoir Company (SMR) is an eligible applicant under Senate Bill 06-179. It <br />was incorporated in 1931, "to safeguard and protect the rights of all water users and consumers of water in what is <br />comrnon1v lmown as The Continental Reservoir (Continental), located in Hinsdale County, Colorado, and storing water for <br />use in connection with The Rio Grande Canal and the Monte Vista Canal, supplying water for irrigation in the Counties of <br />Rio Grande, Saguache, Concjos and Alarnosa, in the State of Colorado, all in Water District No. 20, Irrigation Division <br />No. 3 of the State of Colorado:" and -For the purpose of acquiring title, holding, maintaining and operating the Santa <br />Maria Reservoir, the storage of water therein, the distribution of water therefrom, together with all extensions thereof or <br />thereto, the inlet works, outlet works, settling ponds and maintaining the same... " Santa Maria Reservoir (Santa Maria) is <br />located in the crater of an old volcano. The reservoir was constructed in 1910 and is operated in conjunction with <br />Continental. Santa Maria receives regulated discharges from Continental Reservoir through a century-old conveyance <br />system (the System) of a pipeline, a siphon and an open ditch (See Attachment A). Santa Maria stores irrigation water and <br />also stores Rio Grande Compact water, San Luis Valley Water Conservancy District water, Colorado Division of Wildlife <br />(CDOW) water, and Trans-Mountain water. Santa Maria also provides flood control. Continental, with a designed <br />capacity of 27,000 acre feet, and Santa Maria, designed capacity 43,500 acre feet, irrigate a vast 5-county area of <br />the San Luis Valley (Attachment B). For the past twenty years, however, Santa Maria has been limited to storing <br />only 15,000 AF due to the deteriorating condition and the leaks, seeps and losses in the conveyance system between