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CWCB Water Project Loan Program <br /> Project Data Sheet C 150401 <br /> Borrower: The Sanford Canal Company County: Rio Grande <br /> Project Name: Sanford Diversion and Project Type: Ditch Rehabilitation <br /> Headgate Rehabilitation <br /> Drainage Basin/District: Rio Grande/22 Water Source: Conejos River <br /> Total Project Cost: $213,000 Funding Source: Construction Fund, <br /> WSRA Grants <br /> Type of Borrower: Agricultural Average Annual Diversion: 4,000 AF <br /> CWCB Loan: $101,000 Interest Rate: 1.75%Term: 30-years <br /> (with 1%service fee) <br /> The Sanford Canal Company was incorporated in 1892 as a "Colorado Water Company" and later <br /> became a Mutual Ditch Company in 1912. Its diversion is located on the Conejos River just below <br /> the confluence with the San Antonio River and has a service area covering approximately 3,000 <br /> irrigated acres. The purpose of this Project is to address the need for a well-designed diversion <br /> structure that will reduce maintenance, improve water management efficiencies, and allow for the <br /> accurate control of compact-entitled waters. The core of the Sanford Canal diversion structure has <br /> been washed away over time, contributing to decades of limited diversion to irrigators and potential <br /> over payment to the Compact. Currently irrigators divert their water right by piling debris such as <br /> tree trunks or cinderblocks to act as the diversion dam. This Project will remove and replace the <br /> diversion and headgate structures and install automated headgates and four gauging stations. <br /> Construction is expected to start by September 2014. <br /> This Project is one of three projects collectively known as the Conejos River System Confluence <br /> Management Project, managed by the Conejos Water Conservancy District. The District has taken a <br /> proactive "whole river" system approach to water management and over the past few years have <br /> improved the efficiency and stability of many diversions, developed real-time water management <br /> data, and studied the effects on return flows from irrigated areas from groundwater withdrawals. The <br /> Confluence Management Project will extend this whole river strategy to the Confluence, specifically <br /> to the Sanford Canal E.hraim Ditch and East Bend Ditch. ° <br /> Alamosa HWY 160 <br /> 3 t , <br /> HWY <br /> 285 <br /> Manassa . t <br /> Conejos <br /> • <br />