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CWCB Construction Fund Loan Application PART A #4. Please provide a brief description of the owner's existing water supply facilities and describe any existing operational or maintenance problems. Attach separate sheets if needed, and a map of the service area The Fort Morgan Reservoir and Irrigation Company diverts water from the south side of the South Platte River for both irrigation and augmentation purposes. Water deliveries are made through the Fort Morgan Canal to recharge sites and irrigation of lands lying south of the South Platte River between the towns of Weldona and Brush, Colorado. FMRICo delivers irrigation water to approximately 15,000 acres of irrigated land and also operates a recharge and augmentation plan that provides augmentation water for approximately 90 wells used for agricultural irrigation. In addition to many farmers, shareholders include the City of Fort Morgan, the City of Brush, Western Sugar Cooperative and XCEL Energy. One of the major concerns of the existing river diversion structure is its age. It was installed in the early 1900's and was repaired in 1987. The river diversion consists of a board system to block off the river flow and divert the flow into the ditch. A major operational drawback of the current structure is the inability of FMRICo to remove diversion boards down to the floor of the structure, which results in a build -up of sand in front of the boards and the ditch intake headgates. The diversion structure has lost its effectiveness due to the large amount of sand that has accumulated upstream of the diversion. The c uffm structure cannot be operated in a manner to reduce the sand upstream of the intake gates. The sand bar causes excessive amounts of sand to be drawn into the ditch. This problem will continue to occur unless the river diversion is changed. There is also a problem with debris, mainly trees, hanging up on the structure and causing continual maintenance issues. PART B #5. Please provide a brief narrative description of the proposed project induding purpose. need, facilities type of water uses to be served and sernce area The FMRICo river diversion structure is very old and has lost it effectiveness. The proposed project is to replace 100' of the cement river structure and also the ditch intake headgates with Obemeyer bladder gates. The ditch is used for the Company's decreed direct flow irrigation water and is also used to divert water to numerous augmentation sites under the FMRICo system.