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11.2 POWERS AND AUTHORITIES <br />The powers of the DISTRICT are granted by the State of Colorado pursuant to C.R.S. 37-45 -118 <br />and 134. The bylaws of the DISTRICT are attached in Appendix C. <br />11.3 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBII,ITIES OF OFFICERS <br />See bylaws in Appendix C and CRS 37 -45 -115 and 116. <br />111.4 NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS <br />The DISTRICT has a variety of water customers. Most are signatories to standard "water <br />petitions" as provided for by C.R.S. 37 -45 -122 through 125 and 134. The general categories of <br />customers are as follows: <br />Municipal and Industrial Water Users include the City of Cortez, the Town of Dove <br />Creek and 160 contracts with individuals. The individual contractors are located both <br />upstream of McPhee Reservoir and along the Dove Creek Canal and Laterals system. In <br />addition, the DISTRICT owns 4,500 acre -feet of Dolores Project municipal and industrial <br />water that is presently not allocated to a specific user. <br />Supplemental water is provided to the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company (MVIC) <br />which is a private non -profit corporation. MVIC has approximately 1,300 stockholders, <br />who own 33,234 shares of stock in the Company and irrigate 32,480 acres. <br />Full service water users include the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe who irrigates 7,500 acres <br />and 189 individual non -Indian full service landowners who irrigate 28,000 acres. <br />Other customers who are served by contract are Montezuma Water Company ( "MWcl% <br />the Towaoc- Highline Canal Committee ( "T/H Canal Comm ") and Western Area Power <br />Administration/Bureau of Reclamation ( "WAPA/BOR" ). MWC has a "carriage <br />contract" with the DISTRICT to transport non - project water through Project facilities to <br />serve water to 3,500 domestic water customers in western Montezuma and Dolores <br />Counties. T -H Canal Committee is made up of three entities: MVIC, Ute Tribe and BOR <br />to serve the lower portion of the MVIC system, the 7,500 acres of Ute Indian full service <br />land, and operate McElmo Creek Salinity Control Project features. Two power plants are <br />features of the Dolores Project which are part of the Western Area Power Administration <br />system. <br />II.5 HISTORY <br />A general history of water development in the DISTRICT area is described in the following <br />sections. <br />11.5.1 ESCALANTE AND DOMINGUEZ EXPEDITION <br />During the summer of 1776, the Spanish Fathers Domingez and Escalante, camped on the spot <br />that is now know as the Escalante ruin. Their journals reflect their vision of a Dolores Project, <br />saying: "if the water supply could be brought to the vast expanse of land to south and west it <br />would sustain a civilization ". <br />M <br />