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Water Supply Reserve Account—Application Form <br /> Revised December 2011 <br /> Exhibit A <br /> Statement of Work <br /> WATER ACTIVITY NAME—Ordway Cattle Feeders Water Line Extension,Phase II <br /> GRANT RECIPIENT—Crowley County <br /> FUNDING SOURCE -WSRA Basin and Statewide Funds, CWCB Loan <br /> INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND <br /> This project completes a waterline that will provide water to the Ordway Cattle Feeders feedlot from wells located on a local <br /> ranch owned by the company. The Ordway Cattle Feeders already has in place a battery of four wells,two booster stations <br /> and 4.2 miles of pipe at the west end of the proposed system. Phase I, funded by Ordway Cattle Feeders in its entirety, <br /> includes the re-establishing easements and the rehabilitation of the existing stretch of pipeline, wells and booster stations. <br /> Phase 2 completes the project with an additional booster station, 10.5 miles of water pipeline, 2 back-up generators, and a <br /> monitoring/control system. WSRA funding will be dedicated to Phase 2,and a partner CWCB loan will fund the bulk of the <br /> project. <br /> OBJECTIVES <br /> The primary purpose of this project is to provide a consistent,viable supply of livestock drinking water,dust abatement,and <br /> compost conditioning water for the Feedyard. The Feedyard also intends to use this new water source to serve their feed mill <br /> in the future. This water supply will also provide a source of water for fighting farmstead and wild land fires in the area <br /> from Crowley to Ordway. <br /> The water needs of the Feedyard are roughly equivalent to the needs of a town with a population of 5,500 people,using <br /> approximately 1,500 acre feet of water per year. Currently,two thirds of that water is purchased on the spot market from <br /> Front Range cities. In addition,the Feedyard owns approximately 500 acre feet of water rights. Water is delivered from <br /> Pueblo Reservoir,stored in Lake Henry and then piped to the Feedyard. <br /> There are several problems with the historic supply regimen,and corresponding opportunities provided by the proposed <br /> project. Evaporative loss from Pueblo Reservoir to Lake Henry is 26%. The evaporative loss from Lake Henry is <br /> approximately 50%. This pipeline project eliminates those evaporation and transit losses. The current water supply is not <br /> secure. The majority of Lake Henry water rights are held by Front Range cities. As water supply needs increase for the <br /> Front Range,less water will be available for purchase on the spot market,and Front Range providers will likely hold their <br /> water closer to home. With less water being stored in Lake Henry,evaporation rates will be even higher. In the 2002 <br /> drought,the Feedyard was forced to install a floating pump in Lake Henry in order to get required water from the Lake. <br /> With use of the wells,augmentation water could be stored at higher elevation reservoirs,greatly reducing evaporative loss. <br /> Finally,water quality from project wells is of higher quality than water that is currently being used. This higher quality and <br /> consistent water source will allow the Feedyard to convert their feed mill and reduce their potable water demand by <br /> approximately 14 acre feet per year. <br /> 13 <br />