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Water Supply Reserve Account—Application Form <br /> Revised December 2011 <br /> 4. To help us map WSRA projects please include a map(Exhibit B)and provide the general coordinates below: <br /> Latitude: 38 . 222708 Longitude: 103. 721513 <br /> 5. Please provide an overview/summary of the proposed water activity(no more than one page). Include a description of the <br /> overall water activity and specifically what the WSRA funding will be used for. A full Statement of Work with a <br /> detailed budget and schedule is required as Exhibit A of this application. <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 wells are decreed for irrigation and livestock watering. The Ordway Cattle Feeders <br /> already has in place a battery of four wells, two booster stations, and 4.2 miles of pipe at the west end of the proposed <br /> system. Phase I,funded by Ordway Cattle Feeders in its entirety,includes re-establishing easements and the rehabilitation of <br /> the existing stretch of pipeline, wells and booster stations. Phase 2 completes the project with a third booster station, 10.5 <br /> miles of water pipeline, two back-up generators, and a remote monitoring and control system. WSRA funding will be <br /> dedicated to Phase 2. <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 /> needs in the future. In addition,the water supply will also provide an emergency source of water for fighting farmstead and <br /> wild land fires in the area from Crowley to Ordway. Crowley County and Ordway Feedyard,LLC will execute an MOU to <br /> detail their agreement and mutual benefits of the waterline,which will be owned by Ordway Feedyard,LLC. <br /> The water needs of the Feedyard have been roughly equivalent to the needs of a town with a population of 5,500 people, <br /> using approximately 1,500 acre feet of water per year. Currently,two thirds of that water is purchased on the spot market <br /> from Front Range cities. In addition,the Feedyard owns 569 shares of Colorado Canal water paired with Lake Meredith and <br /> Lake Henry. Water is delivered from 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. <br /> • Combined transit and evaporative losses sustained under the current regimen were 66%in 2012(data source-State <br /> Engineers Office and Colorado Canal Co). This means that the Feedyard lost 954 acre feet of water in order to <br /> provide 500 acre feet of water to the feedyard. This pipeline project eliminates 850 acre feet of that loss,freeing up <br /> that water for other uses. <br /> • The current water supply is not secure. Evaporative loss forces the Feedyard to purchase water on the spot market—a <br /> vulnerable source. <br /> • The current water supply storage and delivery system is not secure. The majority of Lake Henry water rights are held <br /> by Front Range cities. The reservoir's water levels are controlled mainly by Front Range users,creating increased <br /> vulnerability for the company. When less water is stored in Lake Henry,evaporation rates become greater. In the <br /> 2012 drought,the Feedyard was forced to install a floating pump in Lake Henry in order to get required water from <br /> the Lake. <br /> • With use of Feedyard-owned wells,augmentation water could be stored at higher elevation reservoirs,further <br /> reducing evaporative loss. <br /> • Finally,water quality from project wells is of higher quality than water that is currently being used. <br /> Additional project benefits will be detailed later in the application. <br /> 6 <br />