C150215 contract docs

• Contract/PO #: c150215
• Contractor Name: Low Line Ditch Company, The
• Contract Type: Grant
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Contract Documents

Lowline Ditch Company, Inc.
C/O Fetzer & Company This dacument is incorporated
P.O. Box 1111 into the contract by reference.
Sterling, CO 80751 : .
[phone]
Jixne 22, 2005
Mr. Mike Serlet, PE
Colorado Water Conservation Board
1580 Logan Street, Suite 750
Denver, CO 80203
REF: AC'�RTCULTURAL EMERGENCY DROUGHT GRANT APPLICATION
Dear Mike:
This �etter and the enclosed information is in support of the Lowline Ditch Company Inc.
(Lowline) request for funding for years 2003 and 2004 through Colorado's Agricultural
Emergency Drought Response Grant. Lowline Ditch Company was formed on August 14, 1884 as
a Mutual Ditch Company to deliver direct flow water to shareholders and then in 2003 the Lowline
applied far a Augmentation plan and recharge water right to replace depletions from shareholder
wells to allow its membeYS to continue to use fheir weils(1 �i wells kotaT—f 4 irrigatien, 1 dedicated
augmentation, and 1 feedlotl by complying with Colorado state laws and regulations. Lowline is
incorporated �znder the �Colorado Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act as evidenced by receipt from
the Colorad� Secretary of State. Lowline has filed Form 1024 with the U.S. Internal Revenue
Service fc�r recognition of tax exemption under Section SO1(a) as a�Ol(c)(12) Mutual Ditch
Company and has been excepted by the IRS.
The specific purpose of Lowlines' water court filing is the developmerit, adjudication and
continued operation of a plan of augmentation for its member wells. Member wells are monitored,
depletions to the river are computed and assessments levied. These assessments are utilized to
lease replacement water supplies and pay the attorney and engineering costs associated with
obtaining Substitute Water Supply Plans from the State Engineer and the final Water Court
approved Augrnentation Plan. Lowline's Augmentation Plan Case No. 03-CW-09� is set for trial
in Water Division 1 District Water Court beginning January 2007.
A three person Board of Directors governs Lowline. The current Board Members are as follows:
Donald Schell, President
Adrian Kaiser, Vice President
Steve Kaiser, Secretary
For years 2003 and 2004, Lowline has operated under a Colorado State Engineer approved
Substitute Water Supply Plan. Lowline fully augmented the out-of-priority depletions to the river
as required by the State and Division Engineer. The replacement supplies consisted of leasing