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Alternative No. 1 – New Cache la Poudre Irrigating Company and Cache la Poudre <br />Reservoir Company <br />Background: New Cache la Poudre Irrigating Company <br />The Greeley No. 2 Canal (a.k.a. New Cache Ditch) diverts water from the north side of <br />the Cache la Poudre River and services lands that extend from the Windsor/Timnath <br />area on the west to the Barnesville area on the east. <br />The New Cache system includes the main Greeley No. 2 Canal as well as numerous <br />laterals. New Cache delivers a variety of sources to its shareholders for irrigation. In <br />addition to water diverted directly from the river, New Cache also deliveries irrigation <br />water to their shareholders from Timnath Reservoir (a.k.a. Cache la Poudre Reservoir), <br />Big Windsor Reservoir, Fossil Creek Reservoir, CBT, and other minor sources. Timnath <br />and Big Windsor water are delivered directly to the Greeley No. 2 Canal downstream of <br />the Greeley No. 2 Canal river diversion, but above Kern Reservoir. Fossil Creek and <br />CBT are typically diverted at the river for delivery to New Cache shareholders. New <br />Cache also uses the Kern Reservoir as an equalizer reservoir. <br />New Cache has direct flow rights for diversions from the Poudre River through the <br />4 <br />Greeley No. 2 Canal. There are 2,499.69 shares of stock in the company.The <br />following table includes some pertinent water rights information associated with this <br />water right. <br />Table 4 - New Cache la Poudre Irrigating Company Information <br />PriorityAdjudicationAppropriationDecreed Flow Rate <br />No.DateDate(cfs) <br />37April 11, 1882October 25, 1870110 <br />44April 11, 1882September 15, 1871170 <br />72April 11, 1882November 10, 1874184 <br />83April 11, 1882September 15, 1877121 <br />- December 31, 1975May 27, 197465 <br />Background: Cache la Poudre Reservoir Company <br />The Cache la Poudre Reservoir (CLP Reservoir) Company owns the rights decreed to <br />Timnath Reservoir, which is an off-channel reservoir located five miles northwest of <br />Kern Reservoir. The reservoir is filled with sources from the Cache la Poudre River via <br />an inlet canal as well as other inflows from tributary streams and drainage inflows. The <br />reservoir outlet delivers water directly to the Greeley No. 2 Canal and the Lake Canal. <br />The CLP Reservoir Company is often associated with the New Cache system because <br />many of the shareholders in the New Cache system also own shares of stock in the <br />4 <br />Source of information taken from a ditch-wide analysis. <br /> <br />