South Platte - FarnersRes&IrrCo_Amend 1 C150428

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Applicant: Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Company
• Description: FRICO System
• Board Meeting Date: 7/22/2008
• Contract/PO #: C150428
• Alt Ag Water - Doc Type: Contract Documents

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Vigil, Dori
From: Doherty, Todd
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:28 PM
To: Vigil, Dori
Cc: Manuel Montoya; Geneva Sandusky; Kelly DiNatale; 'Rose Murphy'
Subject: RE: Request for Extension of Time for FRICO Alternative Agriculture Transfer Grant
Dori—
Would you please request a contract extension/contract amendment for our contract with the Farmers Reservoir and
Irrigation Company (FRICO)? I believe their contract is set to expire the end of the month, so I believe there is a bit of
urgency to this request.
Manuel/Kelly--
Would you we will also need a revised schedule to accompany this. Please provide this to myself and Dori as soon as
possible.
Thank you!
Todd
Todd Doherty, Program Manager
Water Supply Planning Section
Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
1580 Logan Street,Suite 200
Denver,CO 80203
Phone:[phone] x3210
Fax:[phone]
[e-mail]
www.cwcb.state.co.us
From: Rose Murphy [mailto:rmurphy©farmersres.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:51 AM
To: Doherty, Todd; Kelly DiNatale
Cc: Manuel Montoya; Geneva Sandusky
Subject: Request for Extension of Time for FRICO Alternative Agriculture Transfer Grant
Todd,
This e-mail is sent on behalf of Manuel Montoya.
We recently provided you with a status report of work completed to date and a summary of key findings to date. Initial
outreach was held with the FRICO Board of Directors and Barr and Milton Division shareholders. As you may be aware,
the Division 1 Water Court ruling in the 02CW403 case created controversy with some FRICO shareholders and impacted
the timing of the entire project as subsequent tasks were dependent on the outcome of the survey of FRICO
shareholders on alternative agricultural transfers. As a result,the sequencing of tasks was modified from the original
approach of surveying FRICO shareholders and then presenting leasing options to municipal water providers. The focus
instead shifted to the development of the water leasing market experiment and detailed discussions with two water
providers,the City of Thornton and South Adams Water and Sanitation District to explore water provider willingness to
enter into alternative agricultural transfers and/or the shared water bank concept. The outcome of those discussions
resulted in Thornton and South Adams providing data on potential water supplies that could be available for a shared
water bank in the near term. The project team is in the process of finalizing the draft water operations and accounting
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