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Loan Feasibility Study for Raw Water Acquisition and Utilization Page 13 Attebery Ditch to the District is desirable and the yield would satisfy a portion of the District's base demand, the cost of the Grisenti ownership in the Lester and Attebery Ditch and associated encumbrances made this water purchase option not feasible. Pleasant Valley Ditch Water Rights In 2004, Mr. Goodwin offered the District his ownership of 10/12` of the Pleasant Valley Ditch water right for $1,400,000, which is equivalent to approximately $4,130 per of consumptive use. The Pleasant Valley Ditch is decreed for a total of 10 cfs from the Arkansas River to be used for irrigation on 293 acres. The 10 cfs water right is comprised of the original water right for 8 cfs and a transfer from the Alexander Ditch in the amount of 2 cfs. The 8 cfs original water right, Priority No. 291, has an adjudication date of February 3, 1894 and an appropriation date of May 31, 1883. The 2 cfs water right, Priority No. 194, has an adjudication date of July 2, 1906 and an appropriation date of December 31, 1877. Both of the water rights in the Pleasant Valley Ditch are decreed for irrigation. While the adjudication date of the 2 cfs water right transferred from the Alexander Ditch appears to be junior to the adjudication of the original 8 cfs water right, both of these water rights are considered as decreed under the original adjudication for Water District 12. Original adjudication classification of the 2 cfs water right was confirmed by Steve Witte, Division Engineer for Water Division 2. There has been one previous change of water rights involving the Pleasant Valley Ditch. In 1974, 0.23 cfs of owner Mr. McEnulty's 1 /12th interest in the ditch was transferred to the Glen Vista augmentation plan. Details of the water remaining in the Pleasant Valley Ditch water rights are presented in Table 2. Table 2 Pleasant Valley Ditch Water Might Ditch Name Source Adjudication Appropriation Priority Administration Amount (cfs) Date Date Number Pleasant Arkansas 7/2/1906 12/31/1877 194 10227.00000 1.954 cfs 2/3/1894 5/31/1883 291 12204.00000 7.816 cfs Valley River Ditch Total 9.770 cfs The District understands Mr. Goodwin's ownership to be 10 /12th of the Pleasant Valley Ditch, prior to the transfer of 0.23 cfs out of the ditch for the Glen Vista augmentation, or 8.34 cfs of the 10 cfs total. LRE is in the process of preparing an engineering report to document the average annual consumptive use yield from Mr. Goodwin's interest in the Pleasant Valley Ditch. At this time, LRE estimates the average annual consumptive use yield of Mr. Goodwin's interest in the Pleasant Valley Ditch to be approximately 339 af/year. Further analysis of the historical consumptive yield of Mr. Leonard Rice Engineers, Inc. August 2006 — 1018PEN05 GMS, Inc.