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Emergency Loan Application and Feasibility Study Zweck and Turner Ditch Company <br /> <br />Project Description <br />Describe the desired project’s goals. State whether the Borrower has or will retain a <br />Professional Engineer for design services. Note that all structural projects funded through the <br />CWCB loan program will require a Professional Engineer. <br /> <br /> <br />Alternative 1 – Do Nothing: This alternative is considered unacceptable. The water users will be <br />unable to deliver water for the spring 2014 irrigation season unless the ditch is repaired. <br /> <br />Alternative 2 – Rebuilding Collaboratively with Improvements: The Zweck and Turner Ditch <br />Company shares a diversion with the Denio Taylor Mill Ditch and the Runyon Ditch. These <br />users are cooperating to repair the head gate. The Zweck and Turner Ditch will be responsible <br />for 50% of the repairs and the remainder of the costs will be split 25% each for the other two <br />ditches. Because a portion of the water rights are owned by public entities, an application for <br />public assistance has been submitted to FEMA for the cost of repairs to the diversion structure <br />and head gate. This request is under review by FEMA. <br /> <br />The Zweck and Turner Ditch is severely damaged as it crosses Boulder County open space at <br />Pella Ponds and private property. The Ditch Company is coordinating with Boulder County to <br />assure timing of repairs to the County open space and the Zweck and Turner Ditch are not in <br />conflict. We are analyzing alternative alignments to assure that the ditch is less likely to be <br />damaged in the future and will be compatible with open space and planned gravel mining <br />adjacent to a portion of the ditch. <br /> <br />Selected Alternative 3 – Zweck and Turner Ditch Repairs: This loan request is for funding to the <br />repair the severely damaged Zweck and Turner irrigation ditch. Planed work includes: <br /> Back fill and stabilize the ditch alignment; <br /> Re install the ditch through the stabilized reach; and <br /> Remove silt and debris from the portion of the ditch that was not destroyed by the <br />flooding. <br />No new measuring structures will be required for this reach of the ditch. <br /> <br />Cost Estimate <br />The project cost estimate, provided by land owners, is $362,000 and is further broken down as <br />follows: <br /> <br />Task Cost <br />Design (engineer, survey, <br />geotechnical) $62,500 <br />Permitting n/a