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1. Name of the project or facility: Relocation of the first 5 miles of the outlet channel <br />2. Purpose of this loan application. Check one. <br />New project <br />X Rehabilitation or replacement of existing facility <br />Enlargement of existing facility <br />Emergency Repair <br />Other (describe) <br />3. If the project is for rehabilitation of an existing reservoir, is the reservoir currently <br />under a storage restriction order from the State Engineer? YES _ NO X <br />4. General location of the project. (Please include county, and approximate distance and direction <br />from nearest town, as well as legal description, if known. The project is located in Crowley <br />County, 3 miles southeast of the town of Ordway. <br />Please provide a brief narrative description of the proposed project including purpose, need, <br />facilities, type of water uses to be served and service area. Attach separate sheet, if needed. The <br />project will involve the relocation of the outlet channel beginning at the shortest distance <br />from the dead pool to the high water line, which was dug last November, then <br />constructing a new channel along or near the high water line to the west and south <br />26,000 feet where it would intercept the existing outlet channel upstream of the existing <br />outlet works. The soil removed will be used to construct a breakwater dike between the <br />newly constructed channel and the main body of water to prevent wave action <br />depositing silt into the channel, and part of the soil will be used to construct a small lew <br />on the other side of the channel to force runoff inflow to the reservoir out of the newly <br />constructed channel but parallel to the new channel, until it meets the existing outlet <br />channel near the existing outlet structure. A new outlet structure will be constructed <br />near the new intake of the new outlet channel. The relocated outlet channel would be <br />submerged when needed as part of lake storage only during the peak years of wet <br />cycles (1 or 2 out of 10 years), otherwise it can be maintened must as any other <br />constructed channel. This new channel will allow access to water otherwise trapped in <br />the reservoir, and at flow rates that can be put to beneficial use. The channel is <br />designed for a 200 cfs low flow rate when the lake level is low, and a high flow rate of <br />800 cfs when the lake level is higher. Waters from this reservoir are exchanged for <br />irrigation municipal domestic, industrial, well augmentation, and other beneficial uses. <br />CFLA902 <br />