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LOWER LATHAM RESERVOIR COMPANY <br />WATER RIGHTS PURCHASE -FLOW MEASURING/MONITORING SYSTEM <br />Proiect Description <br />The Lower Latham Reservoir Company (LLRC) acquired 6 shares of Lower Latham Ditch <br />Company (LLDC), for the purpose of providing augmentation water for existing shareholder <br />wells. The LLRC, and its sister company the LLDC, provide irrigation to approximately 11,000 <br />acres in Weld County, and LLRC also provides well augmentation for 85 wells in order to <br />replace out-of-priority pumping depletions. There are 40 wells that were formerly in the <br />Groundwater Appropriators of the South Platte (GASP) Augmentation Plan, and there are 45 <br />wells also covered in the Augmentation Plan of the Groundwater Management Subdistrict <br />(GMS) of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District. This project will allow LLRC to <br />provides its own Augmentation Plan that will cover the former GASP wells, and supplement <br />coverage of the GMS wells that are not expected to be fully covered. A 2007 SWSP for LLRC <br />was approved by the SEO in May 2007, with a total replacement obligation of 586.6 acre-feet. In <br />2008, LLRC filed a permanent well augmentation plan. LLRC concluded that additional <br />replacement sources were necessary to provide sufficient replacement water during extended <br />drought years. In March 2007, LLRC purchased the 384 acre Rothe Farm, including 4 shares of <br />LLDC, with an estimated average of 366.2 acre-feet of consumptive use. In May 2007, LLRC <br />purchased the 55.9 acre DeJong Farm or 2 shares of LLDC, with an estimated average of 84.1 <br />acre-feet of consumptive use, for a total 6 shares of LLDC. The LLDC is a senior water right <br />that sustains a high yield during both average and drought years. The CWCB loan included the <br />purchase of the 6 shares of LLDC and instrumentation to measure and record flow at various <br />locations on the system. <br />Proiect Data <br />Sponsor: Lower Latham Reservoir Company County: Weld Water Source: S. Platte <br />Terms of Loan: $1,994,485.38@2.25% for 30-yrs. Substantial Completion Date: Dec. 1, 2007 <br />Design Engineer: Douglas C. Seeley. P.E. -Loveland, Colorado <br />Construction Contractor: Electronic Data Solutions, Inc. (SCADA) -Jerome, Idaho <br />C.D.S. Electric, Inc. (SCADA) -Greeley, Colorado <br />Sharp Services, LLC. (SCADA) -Greeley, Colorado <br />Average Annual Diversion - 450 acre-feet <br />