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Emergency Loan Application and Feasibility Study Rough & Ready Irrigating Ditch Company <br />Project Background <br />During the unprecedented flood of September 2103 in the tributaries of the South Platte River, a <br />significant number of diversion strictures and dams along, the river corridor were damaged. The <br />Project repair /rehabilitation proposed in this Feasibility Study received significant damage as a <br />result of the flood. <br />The Rough & Ready Irrigating Ditch Company and Palmerton Consolidated Ditch Company <br />shared the diversion structure on St. Vrain Creek. The structure had a common diversion dam <br />and sand gates, and a headgate structure with four headgates, two serving each of the two ditches <br />separately. The Rough & Ready Irrigating Ditch Company (Company), is a Colorado Non - Profit <br />Mutual Irrigation Ditch Company and for purposes of this reconstruction project is the applicant. <br />A cost - sharing arrangement with Palmerton will be sought but no mutual agreement can be <br />arrived at, Rough & Ready will recognize that it has all the obligations arising from this loan. <br />The original appropriation and construction of the Rough & Ready Ditch was March 13, 1869. <br />The Company was incorporated in 1891 and has 95.3638 shares of ditch company stock. Water <br />diverted at the structure was used by the shareholders for agricultural irrigation and irrigation of <br />municipal parks, schools and golf courses. The Rough & Ready Ditch headgate is the decreed <br />point of diversion for Pleasant Valley Reservoir, the water from which is used for agricultural <br />and other irrigation by the Rough & Ready Ditch shareholders, The Rough & Ready Ditch is <br />approximately 18.5 miles long. The Palmerton Ditch headgate is the decreed point of diversion <br />for McCall Lake and Oligarchy Reservoir 41. Water from. those reservoirs are used for <br />municipal use, agricultural irrigation, recreation and other uses. <br />Pre - flood there was a rock and concrete darn across the river to provide head for the diversion. <br />In an adjacent, connected concrete headgate structure there were three sand gates adjacent to the <br />diversion dam and four headgates (two each) to regulate the flow diverted into the Rough & <br />Ready Ditch and into the Palmerton Ditch (up to approximately 115 efs combined). Pre -flood, <br />the central sand gate had been retro fit with a Rubicon flumegate which allowed flows bypassing <br />the Rough & Ready/Palmerton diversion to be controlled and measured. Downstream of the two <br />sets of headgates, two separate channels conveyed water in the Rough & Ready and Palmerton <br />ditches to the separate individual measuring flurries (replaced prior to the 2013 irrigation season). <br />Post -flood, nothing remains of the diversion dam. The sand gates structure collapsed and <br />consequently the Rubicon flumegate was destroyed. The remainder of the headgate structure <br />with the four headgates controlling the diversions into the ditches was damaged and due to its <br />present condition needs to be removed and replaced.. The flood waters overtopped the ditches <br />between the headgates and the measuring flumes and washed out both ditches and both <br />measuring flumes. Post -flood there are only remnants of the individual ditches between the <br />headgates and Highway 66. Both ditches require rebuilding between the diversion structure and <br />