BOARD01407

• Board Meeting Date: 7/20/2004
• Description: CF Section - New Loans - Henry Bolen Ditch Company - Ditch Pipeline Project
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Henry Bojen Ditch Company
July 20-21, 2004
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Agenda Item 14d

informational brochures, funding coordination, project management and legal counsel for this
project and several others in the Mancos Valley, Qualifying agriculture producers that install more
efficient irrigation systems, which reduce salt loadings can be funded by the Program,

Feasibility Study

Raymond Keith, Company President, has completed the feasibility study in accordance with CWCB
guidelines. The study includes an assessment of alternatives available for ditch rehabilitation, The
cost estimate is provided by NRCS.

The Henry Bolen Ditch Company

The Company is a non-profit corporation registered in the State of Colorado in July 2003 and is in
good standing, There are seven (7) Company members. The Company is relatively new, however
the Ditch has been in existence for 126 years, Prior to incorporation, an informal version of the
Company managed the Ditch by distributing costs or in-kind services for Ditch maintenance and
repair needs (approximateiy $300 per year), Future member assessments will be based on a
prorated amount of adjudicated water rights owned by each member and conveyed through the
Ditch. The Company's Funding Agreement establishes the proportioned amount for each member.
The Company will own, operate and maintain the new pipe system and diversion structure and will
have the responsibility to receive, convey and deliver irrigation water to the members of the
Company, The Company will repair, improve and/or reconstruct the Ditch when necessary, The
Company does not own the water rights,

Water RiQhts

The members of the Company own the water rights conveyed in the Ditch. The source of the
irrigation water Is the Mancos River, The Ditch currently carries a maximum of 13,0 cis and diverts
an average of 2,505 acre-feet per year (measured 1974-2002), with the highest diversion measured
in 1975 of 3, 1 06 ac-ft, The water diverted at diversion structure No, 534 consists of 15 different
adjudicated rights with dates of appropriations ranging from 1878 to 1890, and totaling 12,6 cis plus
six (6) rights to storage water in the Jackson Reservoir that is used to supplement adjudicated
rights late in the irrigation season.

Proiect Description

Three alternatives were analyzed in the feasibility study:

1) No action alternative
2) Individual members construct pipeline to meet their own needs
3) Participate in the Mancos Valley Unit of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program

The Company chose to participate in the Salinity Control Program primarily due to the available
NRCS funding assistance. The selected alternative includes a new diversion structure;
approximately 14,000 feet of PVC pipeline, ranging in size from 21 inch down to 6-inch; metered
delivery points to each member; various valves, drains and vents; and river channel improvements
to improve efficiency of the river to deliver water to the diversion structure.
Total Project cost estimate is:

TOTAL

$154,500 (30% of Const. Cost)
515.000
$669,500

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Planning/Engineering (NRCS In-Kind)
Construction