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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />WATER PROJECT LOAN APPLICATION <br />THE COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />Finance Section <br />1580 Logan St., Suite 600 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Attn: Anna Mauss, P.E. <br />Phone: (303) 866 -3441 x3224 Fax (303) 894 -2578 <br />Email: anna.mauss @state.co.us <br />Part A. - Description of the Applicant <br />1. Name of applicant: City of Lamar <br />Mailing Address: 102 E. Parmenter Street, Lamar, CO 81052 <br />Business Phone: (719) 336 -2002 Fax (719) <br />Federal ID Number: 98 -05409 Email: josh.cichocki @lamar.co.us <br />2. Person to contact regarding this application: <br />Name: Josh Cichocki <br />Position/Title: Water/Wastewater Director <br />Address: 103 North Second Street, Lamar. CO 81052 <br />Email: josh.cichocki @lamar.co.us <br />3. Type of organization: Municipality/Enterprise <br />Date of Annual Meeting: n/a <br />Is the organization incorporated in the State of Colorado? YES _ NO_X_ <br />4. Please provide a brief description of the owner's existing water supply facilities and describe any <br />existing operational or maintenance problems. (Appendix A — Map of Project Area) <br />The City of Lamar owns a portfolio of groundwater and surface water rights and utilizes these rights <br />to provide water services obtained from water supply wells completed in the alluvial and bedrock <br />aquifers in the area. The surface water rights used by the City for irrigation and aquifer recharge or <br />leased for irrigation uses on nearby farms include the ownership of shares in the Fort Bent Ditch <br />Company (3,199.6 shares), Lamar Canal and Irrigation Company (350 shares), and the Lower <br />Arkansas Water Management Association (LAWMA) (290 shares). Lamar is also entitled to <br />purchase Fryingpan- Arkansas Project water from the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy <br />District. <br />The City currently has an application before the Water Court seeking to change the type of use and <br />place of use of the City's shares of ownership of the capital stock of the Ft. Bent Ditch Company. <br />New uses to the originally decreed use of agricultural irrigation include potable and non - potable <br />irrigation, domestic and household purposes, commercial, municipal, industrial, generation of electric <br />1 <br />