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Water Project Construction Loan Program - Project Data <br />Borrower. Bijou Irrigation District (BID) County: Morgan 8 Weld <br />Project Name: Empire Reservoir Project Type: Reservoir Rehabilitation <br />Drainage Basin: South Piatte Water Source: So. Platte River <br />Total Project Cost: $740.000 Funding Sources: CWCB, BID <br />Type of Bortower: Agricultural Aver. Delivery: 19.900 acre-feet <br />CWCB STTFPBA Fund Loan: $666,000 Interest Rate: 2.50% Term: 30 years <br />�� <br />BID is a statutory Irrigation District (�905) and owns and operates Empire Reservoir located west of <br />Fort Morgan in Weld and Morgan Counties. It is an off-stream reservoir primarily impounded by <br />four separate dams constructed in about 1905. Water is diverted from the South Platte River <br />through the Empire Intake Ditch. The water srorage rights are 37,709 acr�feet and there is one <br />refll right. The water siorage at gaqe height 30.0 is 36,142 AF. Currently, the reservoir is restricted <br />to a gage height of 29.0 by the SEO. The reservoir has a history of seepage problems through the <br />Outlet Dam and the Mclnryre Dam, but the East Dam had toe drains installed in the mid -1980's. <br />The SEO has concems about seepage increase and stability due to the additional head from stortn <br />runoff, and has required the installation of an emergency spillway. The proposed project will <br />consist of the construction of new unregulated 40' wide spillway and outtall channel with a crest <br />elevation of 30.0. The one-foot increase in stora9e height will result in 2,682 AF of recovered <br />storage. In atldition, the project will include 4,400 linear feet of toe drain located in the Outlet Dam <br />and the Mclnryre Dam. BID is a special taxing district (hat levies a taz per acre, with an <br />assessment zone currently consisting of 19,177 acres. The existing levy of S10 per acre will be <br />increased to 512 per acre for CWCB loan repayment. <br />. � ;,�..,.� � � <br />��, a m.� �� �. '. <br />�i °aL^'n� T <br />i bYT� <br />' <br />..._. �I � ��-� <br /><, -_—I .(....a� <br />'a°"' <br />M , m ..o.�n,.e. ��a�...... <br />a w� <br />_ � w <br />� <br />E <br />Empire Reservoir , <br />I � R <br />� , I <br />�7 _� � <br />��ii9��� ��� <br />Location Map <br />��� - lt.G�V � <br />� ,� � <br />� i � <br />• � _ t . _1 <br />O .,,�^ _ I .�� <br />i <br />