BOARD00453

• Board Meeting Date: 2/26/1975
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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has been one of being born and raised in Fort Collins and that encom-
passes thirty-eight years now.

You are talking about a very, very vital thing to the economy of our
whole area. I think you should not do this at this time. There has not
been adequate consultation and opportunity with many parties that are
affected. Our company first learned of this approximately seven to ten
days ago via the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, who with
all due respect, while being a very vital part of our area, is a long
way from being the sole organization that is interested,in our area.
More notice should be given. It is not something that can rapidly be
done. With time and planning and opportunity to talk with the Game and
Fish people over the years ahead something should be done for the good
of all. But right now to just go along with putting in an application
for a minimum stream flow to all the people in our area you throw down
the challenge for a confrontation in court. This should not be done at
this time.

Mr. Stapleton: Thank you, Mr. Hill. That was the reason for my initial
questions of these people here. We want to know what the input is.

Mr. Kochenburger: Mr. Chairman, my name is John Kochenburger and I
represent the Larimer and Weld Irrigation Company, Windsor Reservoir,
generally known in our area as the Eaton Ditch. We are one of the
largest or probably the largest in the area and we have been told we
are the second largest in the state. I would like to illustrate to
you with some of our exchanges graphically what this is going to mean
to some of the people in our area insofar as the minimum stream flow
and the abolition of our exchange program are concerned.

(Used a map for this part of his presentation.) This is where the
Windsor Reservoir or the Eaton Ditch irrigates about 55,000 acres of
fine farmland that lies around Fort Collins and east of Greeley. This
major line is our principal canal that delivers the water to many of
our users. Our main point of diversion is right here in the area'
which a minimum stream flows through. We have a high altitude reservoir
which is a transmountain diversion. We have 4,500 acre-feet in the
northern mountains.

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Now the big lines are the historical ways in which we deliver the water
to our users Qut in this area. Probably the most interesting is this
4,500 acre-feet which we have up in the Eaton Reservoir. And tradi-
tionally, we had to bring it many miles down various mountain streams
to our reservoir, to the river and then to our point of diversion here.

We by exchange with North Poudre acquire water from them. We allow
them to divert up here and that is utilized, this northerly part of
this map in yellow. As you can see, this water plays an important part
of the economy. We also have two canals here which intercept the return
flow and we can use it again. We have some very complicated exchanges
with the Water Supply and Storage Company for some of their water as
far up as Chambers Lake with Horsetooth water for some of their stream
flow. Each time meaning that we have to move this on the river from
their point of diversion to us. We have in the Windsor reservoir

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