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Authorization: Small Project Loan Account County: Weld Water Source: Cache la Poudre, CBT Project Yield: 90,000 ac.ft. Terms of Loan: $1,000,000 @ 2.75% for 30 yrs. Project Type: Structure Rehabilitation eThe Larimer and Weld Irrigation Company operates a 40-mile system of supply ditch, including control structures, checks, and headgates. This project is to rehabilitate 10 existing check structures, construct one new check structure on the Larimer and Weld Ditch, and to refinance the cost of 3 check structures constructed in 2002 along the ditch. The new check structures will consist of Obermeyer pneumatically operated gates to automatically check and control the ditch. The gates are opened and closed by a 12-volt DC power air pump that inflates a durable rubber bladder on the downstream side of the gate to raise and lower the gate. Smith Geotechnical has completed the final design plans and the project has been awarded to Kiefer Concrete, Inc., and Barker Construction, Inc., both from Fort Collins, Colorado. The Contractor has completed 4 check structures along the ditch and is scheduled to complete the remaining structures after irrigation season. 21. Dolores Water Conservancv District - WETP ACK Authorization: SB 01-157 County: Montezuma Water Source: Dolores River Project Yield: 7,840 acre-feet Terms of Loan: $7,260,000 @3.50% for 30-years Project Type: Distribution System The District's WETP ACK ( Water for Everyone's Tomorrow Package) proposal is intended to better manage the available resources of the Dolores Project to provide an additional 3,300 acre-feet of water for the fishery below McPhee Dam, increase municipal water supplies, and to provide water of the irrigation of additional lands. This project involves a system of pipelines, pumps, and related facilities to deliver water to the District's Dove Creek Canal system for the irrigation of 4,000 acres of new lands that are presently dry land farmed. Water will be delivered to irrigators in pipes under pressure for sprinkler irrigation only. Harris Water Engineers, of Durango, Colorado, is the planning and design consultant for the project. Construction is tentatively scheduled to commence in the fall of2003. .22. Kern Reservoir and Ditch Comoanv - Kern Reservoir Rehabilitation Proiect Authorization: Small Project Loan Account County: Weld Water Source: Cache La Poudre Project Yield: 2,600 acre-feet Terms of Loan: $3,200,000 @5.10% for 30-years Project Type: Rehabilitation This $5,100,000 project involves dredging Kerns Reservoir to establish additional capacity. Kern's Reservoir is located within the Town of Windsor and has been in use for over 100-years. Over the years the reservoir has silted in to a capacity of!, I 00 acre-feet. The Company is in the process of dredging the existing reservoir site to achieve and additional 700 acre-feet in capacity. Tarco Construction was awarded the project with on-site project management being conducted by Hall-Irwin Construction. Dredging operations commenced in October of 2002 and are complete. The reservoir is currently flow and operating. Substantial completion is scheduled for October of2003. 23. Low Line Ditch Comoanv - Augmentation Proiect Authorization: Construction Fund Water Source: South Platte River Terms of Loan: $94,500 @2.75%for30-years County: Logan Project Yield: 6,650 acre-feet Project Type: AugmentationlDiversion The Low Line Ditch Company operates the Lowline Ditch for delivery of irrigation water within a 2,070-acre service area. The headgate for the ditch is located in Logan County, at the Town of Sterling. This project includes construction of 4 augmentation ponds and drilling one augmentation well to generate augmentation credits to cover depletions for 13 irrigation wells used by stockholders of the Company. Additionally the Ditch Company is rehabilitating their diversion structure on the South Platte to include new gates, walk platform, and concrete _diversion walls. Brent Nation, Nation Engineering Services is the design engineer. Currently both projects are omplete and are scheduled for substantial completion in October of2003.