BOARD00818

• Board Meeting Date: 9/21/1998
• Description: CF Section - Design and Construction Status Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Buffalo Mutual Irrigation Companv - Buffalo Mutual Irrigation Diversion Structure Rehabilitation

Authorization: SB 97-008
Water Source: Arkansas River
Terms of Loan: $378,750 @ 3.75% for 3,0 yrs

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County: Prowers - E of Lamar
Project Yield: 17,560 ac.ft.
Project Type: Diversion Structure

This $325,000 project is the re-construction of the Buffalo Mutual Irrigation Company's
diversion structure and headgate on the Arkansas River in Prowers County 17 miles east of the City
of Lamar. Wright Water Engineers of Denver, Colorado completed project design and preparation
of construction contract documents. The construction contract was awarded to TLM Constructors,
Inc. of Swink, Colorado and construction commenced September 21, 1998.

Pinon Mesa Ranches Community Association - Rural Raw Water Svstem Construction

Authorization: SB 97-008
Water Source: Florida River
Terms of Loan: $258,000 @ 3.75% for 30 yrs

County: La Plata - W of Ignacio
Project Yield: 125 ac.ft.
Project Type: Diversion and Dist. System

This $345,000 project is the construction of a new rural raw water irrigation and distribution
system in La Plata County west of Ignacio. The project consists of construction of a concrete
diversion structure and pump station at the Florida River, a transmission pipeline from the diversion .
to a storage impoundment, and construction of approximately 9,000 feet of distribution pipeline
from the storage impoundment to the water users. RMI Environmental Services of Farmington,
New Mexico prepared the project design. Project construction commenced September 2, 1997 by
RMI Environmental Services of Farmington, New Mexico (a designlbuild contractor). The project
is currently 70% complete and on indefinite hold due to right-of-way delays and financial
problems.

Fort Morgan. City of - NCWCD Southern Pipeline Extension

. Authorization: SB94-029, SB98-ll89, Svrnce Tax
Water Source: Colo.-Big Thompson/Windy Gap
Terms of Loan: $5,500,000 @4% for 40 years
$8,000,000 @ 4% for 30 years

County: Weld/Morgan- W ofFt. Morgan
Project Yield: 6,877 ac.ft.
Project Type: Pipeline Construction

This project is an extension of the Northem Colorado Water Conservancy District's
Southern Pipeline Project. The pipeline extension will provide high quality western slope water to
the City of Fort Morgan for their municipal use. Montgomery Watson, Inc. of Denver completed
the project design, from the Hudson/Ft. Lupton extension at Platteville, to the Fort Morgan area, in .
June. The construction contract was awarded to BRB Contractors, Inc. of Topeka, Kansas and
construction commenced September 1,1998. Project completion is scheduled for late 1999.