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<br />Larimer County is located 90% in the South Platte River Basin and 10% in the North Platte River Basin and is
<br />affected by the South Platte River Compact and the Wyoming v, Colorado Supreme Court Decree, The county is
<br />covered by the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Species in the Platte River Basin and affected by
<br />the U,S, Forest Service Reserved Water Rights Claims for Water Division I (denied), It receives significant benefits
<br />from the Colorado Big Thompson Project.
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<br />In this county there are 29 loans from the CWCB Construction Fund, Of these, 26 have been completed in the
<br />amount of $17,980,988, and three are under design for $3,519,500,
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<br />Water Project Construction Loan Program - Completed Projects by CWCB through FY 1999
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<br />Proiect Name
<br />Lake Canal
<br />Cache LaPoudre Reservoir Dam Rehabilitation
<br />Diversion Dam, Ditch, Pipeline & Irrigation System
<br />Farmers Inig. Diversion Dam and Canal
<br />Farmers Irrigation Ditch, Co, Diversion Dam
<br />Wellington Water Supply System
<br />Fossil Creek Reservoir Dam Rehabilitation
<br />Hertha Reservoir Dam Enlargement
<br />North Poudre Dam #15 Rehabilitation
<br />Repurchase ofUSBR Loan-North Poudre Irrig, Co,
<br />Repurchase of USBR Loan -City of Ft. Collins
<br />Clark Lake Dam Rehabilitation
<br />Douglas Dam Spillway and Repairs
<br />Comanche Dam Rehabilitation
<br />Handy (Welch) Reservoir Dam Repairs
<br />North Poudre Dam #2 Rehabilitation
<br />Barnes Meadow Dam Spillway & Repairs
<br />Poudre Valley Canal Slide Repair
<br />New Cache La Poudre Irrig. Co. Diversion Structure
<br />North Poudre Reservoirs 5 & 6 Rehabilitation
<br />Worster Dam Rehabilitation
<br />City of Greeley Peterson Lake Dam Rebuild
<br />City of Greeley Hourglass Res, Rehabilitation
<br />Equalizer Dam Rehabilitation
<br />Loan Tree Pipeline Reconstruction
<br />Reservoir #6 Outlet Pipe Improvements
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<br />Amount Loaned
<br />$ 160,000
<br />880,000
<br />193,170
<br />109,000
<br />63,000
<br />1,140,000
<br />1,331,704
<br />363,450
<br />1,152,908
<br />164,321
<br />2,425,343
<br />404,502
<br />752,000
<br />1,100,000
<br />304,000
<br />340,551
<br />313,424
<br />300,000
<br />450,000
<br />1,761,096
<br />665,000
<br />644,236
<br />206,351
<br />308,000
<br />1,948,932
<br />500,000
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<br />Two agricultural and two municipal grants have been issued through the Office of Water Conservation. The first
<br />municipal grant in the amount of$$IO,OOO to the city ofF!. Collins for an evaluation of organic additives project,
<br />and the other in the amount of $17,930 to the city of Loveland for a water audits and plumbing retrofit project. The
<br />first agricultural grant in the amount of$12,000 to the North Colorado Water Conservancy District for an
<br />interruptible supply contract study, and the other in the amount of$12,000 to the North Poudre Irrigation Company
<br />for a sediment transport modeling project. All four projects have been completed, The county has also participated
<br />in creating a water conservation plan.
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<br />Instream Flow Water Rights appropriated exclusively in this county total 408 miles and 65 stream segments,
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<br />Note: In reference to Instream Flow Water Rights, information listed above may not be inclusive of all water rights
<br />in a given county since a stream segment may start in one county and end in another.
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<br />The CWCB has installed a staff gage on Elkhom Creek to monitor instream flow water rights. This staff gage was
<br />installed as part of the "Adopt an Instream Flow Program" - a pilot project that involves monitoring instream flow
<br />rights with help from Colorado Trout Unlimited and the Colorado Division of Wildlife,
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<br />This county has 34 Designated Floodplain Studies affecting 84 stream reaches. In regard to Flood Mitigation, there
<br />is one new flood project on Big Dry Creek, one recently completed on West Vine Drainage and three completed
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