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� <br />Near term objectives of the dernonstration project include meeting State-mandated <br />requirements to install flow monitoring equipment at additional sites for the 2006 water <br />year, and improving diversion control which is impacted by sometimes hourly <br />fluctuations in river flow. Longer term objectives include developing data collection and <br />management systems with which the ditch companies can identify system inefficiencies <br />and opportunities for enhancing delivery efficiency and/or improved delivery service. <br />Specific project scope, listed by ditch company is as follows. <br />South Platte Ditch Company (SPDC): <br />Two field sites at SPDC are currently in operation as part of the 2005 pilot project, as is a <br />remote unit which is installed at a board member's home. The Control Design Inc. <br />equipment utilized for the pilot project was made available on a trial basis for the 2005 <br />season. Purchase of this equipment is included the project scope. <br />The radio/control unit at the main flume site has been in operation since June. It is <br />hooked up to an ultrasonic level sensor that extends over the water from the flume wall at <br />the location of the staff gage. For this site — as will be the case for all other flow <br />measurement sites in the demonstration project — fifteen-minute values for flow level, <br />discharge and totalized flow volume are telemetered to a remote site (district office) <br />�� where these values are recorded to a PC hard drive along with a date & time stamp for <br />each entry. Fifteen-minute flow level data is also locally datalogged in the radio/control <br />unit which has capacity for over 160 days of 15 minute data before the oldest data is over <br />written. Discharge and totalized volume values can be derived from this locally logged <br />flow depth values which may be retrieved using the remote ofFice unit. <br />Late in the 2005 season, a pulse output kit was installed on the nearby lift pump and <br />wiring was run to the main flume radio/control unit. Programming code is currently <br />under development by Control Design Inc. to enable the radio/control unit to <br />simultaneously monitor flow_ at both the main flume and at the pump. For 2006 the <br />SPDC also plans to add gage automation at a spillway structure located a short distance <br />upstream from the flume. An in-canal gate on the structure would be automated to <br />maintain a target discharge over the flume. A spillway control gate would be automated <br />to limit spill Independent operation of each gate plus monitoring of the flume and pump <br />flows will be performed by a single radio/control unit. <br />The SPCD diversion structure is located approximately 2 miles upstream from the main <br />flume at a site that can be difficult to access during bad weather. Prior the 2006 season, <br />the SPCD plans to install a radio/control unit at the.diversion structure. An Obermeyer <br />gate in the river channel would be operated to maintain constant upstream water level in <br />the river. A second Obermeyer gate in the canal mouth would be automated to maintain <br />the water level upstream of the spillway structure two miles downstream within a target <br />range. Upstream levels at the spillway would be wirelessly transmitted to the diversion <br />