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The Nunn-Haverson soils are deep, level to nearly level, well drained loams and clay loams formed
<br />in alluvium.
<br />The precipitation in the Hudson area averages approximately 12.0 inches, the average afternoon
<br />relative humidity is about 40 percent in summer, the average summer temperature is 87 degees, and
<br />the average snowfall is 40 inches. The length of the growing season in the area is approximately 140
<br />days with the average for the last killing frost in the spring being May 10 and the first killing frost
<br />in the fall being September 30.
<br />LAND OWNERSHIP
<br />The land irrigated in the project service is private farms and ranches. Since the water is tried to the
<br />land, no water is owned or provided to Municipal and Industrial users.
<br />WATER RIGHTS
<br />The District owns 123 shares (or 5.8%) in the Burlington Ditch, Reservoir and Land Company and
<br />2,759.147 shares (or 20.30%) in the Farmers Reservoir and lrrigation Company's (hereinafter:
<br />"FRICO"), Barr Lake Division.
<br />The District owns the following decrees diverting from the South Platte River through the Burlington
<br />Canal headworks located on the East Bank of the South Platte River in Section 13, Township 3
<br />South, Range 68 West in Adams County, Colorado, and continuing through the Burlington/O'brien
<br />Canal far 16 miles to and past Barr Lake, and then continuing 25 miles through the Denver Hudson
<br />Canal into and through Horse Creek Reservoir and then an additiona125 miles to Prospect Reservoir,
<br />all for the purposes of agricultural irrigation, and other beneficial uses:
<br />a) Then Denver-Hudson Canal, 300 c.f.s., appropriation date of November 28, 1907,
<br />adjudication date of November 12 1924, case no. 54658, Denver District Court;
<br />b) Prospect Reservoir, 5,970 acre feet, appropriation date of November 21, 1910,
<br />adjudication date of November 12, 1924, case no. 54658, Denver District Court;
<br />c) Horse Creek Reservoir, 16,965 acre feet, March 17, 1911, adjudication date of
<br />November 12, 1924, case no. 54658, Denver District Court;
<br />d) Olds Reservoir, 534 acre feet, appropriation date of January 28, 1918, adjudication
<br />date of November 12, 1924, case no. 54658, Denver District Court;
<br />e) Olds Reservoir, 548 acre feet, appropriation date of June 15, 1922, adjudication date
<br />of November 12, 1924, case no. 54658, Denver District Court;
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