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Missouri Heights Mountain Meadows Irrigation Company Ditch <br />Lining Project <br />In an attempt to better serve its shareholders and more efficiently deliver irrigation <br />water the MHMMIC decided to make improvements on a section of ditch between the <br />Spring Park Dam and Upper Cattle Creek Road. From the outlet structure at the dam to the <br />county road the ditch drops less than 12" over 3742' resulting in a seepage loss of up to <br />30 %. <br />1-391:261■.76' N 107`0 41.37" LS elm" 2277 m <br />In the spring of 2013 the shareholders voted to address the seepage /water loss <br />issue by lining the mentioned section of ditch with a corrugated HDPE product with the <br />trade name Mega Ditch. The company and shareholders decided on the ditch liner as it was <br />a much more cost - effective option compared with piping the water. <br />Construction of the lining project began in the fall of 2013. The project was <br />engineered by the NRCS and installation of the product was done by Kursten Construction <br />LLC out of Rifle Colorado. Despite challenging weather conditions the project stayed on <br />schedule and the product was in place for the first call of water in the spring of 2014. <br />During the first call of water the MHMMIC noticed that water loss was still <br />occurring. The company immediately notified the product manufacturer and the installer. <br />The problem was identified as a faulty adhesion along the center seam of the ditch liner. <br />The manufacturer and installer worked diligently during the summer of 2014 to address <br />the issue. After all repairs were carried out a test run of water was run in the late summer <br />an proved to have reduce water loss to less than 10 %. <br />