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The Selected Praject <br />Bijou plans to construct alternative #3. Features of this <br />alternative are as follows: <br />- Sheet piling and pipe piling will be used under all the new <br />concrete structures for general stabilization and for <br />protection from undercurrents. Pipe piling will be placed in <br />an equally spaced pattern and the sheet piling will form the <br />perimeter of these structures. <br />- The bladder gate will have a monolithic steel reinforced <br />concrete floor. This floor will be approximately 15 inches <br />thick. <br />- Wing walls and support walls will all be steel reinforced <br />concrete with a minimum thickness of 15 inches. <br />- The river structure will be 100 feet of Obermeyer Pneumatic <br />Spillway Gate or Bladder Gate. This gate will be 7 feet high <br />and will be located immediately adjacent to the ditch intake <br />structure. <br />These features are shown in the preliminary set of plans found in <br />Appendix D. <br />Water Rights <br />There are 19,176.84 acres in the Bijou District with rights to <br />divert up to 575 cfs from the South Platte River under an <br />original river call of May 18, 1905. Bijou has a storage decree <br />for 37,710 acre feet plus refill. The official name on the decree <br />is the BIJOU IRRIGATION DISTRICT with their water being diverted <br />down the Empire Reservoir Inlet Ditch. <br />As mentioned before, Bijou has had an average annual diversion of <br />50,970 acre feet for all water diverted into Empire Reservoir. <br />Yearly diversions for Bijou would be considered fairly <br />inconsistent. Variations in these numbers correspond to the <br />amount of rainfall during the irrigatian season and overall <br />demand placed on the reservoir by its district members. More <br />rainfall in a certain year meant that less water had to be <br />diverted out of the reservoir in that year and therefore less <br />water had to be diverted into the reservoir in the following year <br />and vice versa. <br />1-zasib�tiity Study <br />ts.','ou ��.r:-igation �istrict <br />Diversion Si.ructure <br />June 2007 <br />� <br />