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� CWCB 2005-2006 NON-REIMBURSABLE PROJECT APPLICATION Project Scope South Platte Ditch Co., Johnson & Edwards Ditch Co. & Lower Platte & Beaver Canal Co. Cana1 Modernization and Radio Telemetry Demonstration Project. General: The three cooperating ditch companies are working together to address the common need for improved flow measurement, data management and canal operating efficiencies. Each of the companies is faced with installing flow monitoring equipment at numerous sites at the conclusion of the 2006 water year. Impetus for this joint effort follows performance observations during the 2005 season of a pilot project which the South Platte Ditch Co. participated in. From the limited scope pilot project, shareholders of the three companies have gained a strong sense of the added value that real-time two-way communications capability can provide in total water management compared with the mere local recording or datalogging functions performed by other flow monitoring alternatives. Each of the districts will install compatible radio/control equipment made by Control Design Inc. of Albuquerque NM. All units will operate using a single radio frequency license. The districts will pool equipment and manpower resources in installing, ' monitoring and tuning the control systems on each canal. Each district will have a remote office-based unit from which it will independently be able to operate and monitor its own control system. Plus, if needed, each district will have the capability to communicate with and under special conditions remotely operate sites of other districts. All three districts are committed to make personnel available to assist visitors during field day events and/or pre-arranged tours of the demonstration sites. Selected sites in each district will be equipped with the radio/control equipment. For each district, the number of selected sites for the demonstration project will represent a fraction of the tofal sites with which they ultimately plan to establish real-time two-way communications capability as part of a high-level irrigation water management system. While numerous commonalities exist among the districts, there are also many unique aspects to each system. Selected sites were chosen in an effort to include a broad range of site conditions for the demonstration project. Engineers from Reclamation's Water Resources Research Laboratory in Denver have committed to continuing their role in the pilot project, (assisting with site set-up; program code development, project monitoring and project documentation) for the larger three ditch company effort. The equipment supplier, Control Design Inc. has also committed to assist with site set-up, program editing, and development of software and hardware modules as needed to communicate with the various types of sensors that may be utilized in the demonstration project. All sites will be powered solar charged DC 12 volt batteries.