BOARD02195

• Board Meeting Date: 9/12/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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acres of land under the Riverside Irrigation
System.

The only plan that could offer any water
from the Narrows for the Riverside Irrigation
System involves an elaborate pumping system
from the main body of water in the Narrows into
the Riverside Ditch. This could only be done
at a capital cost of approximately $2 million
and then would deliver into the ditch at a
point below where delivery could be made to
4,000 acres of Riverside land which lies to the
west. Beside annual power lift costs of con-
siderable amounts, this plan would not assure
water for the west 4,000 acres in the Riverside
System. It would also involve Riverside main-
taining its intake and reservoir and apportion-
ing deliveries from the reservoir to compensate
the west 4,000 acres by delivering additional
water to the west 4,000 acres in an amount
sufficient to equalize what deliveries can be
made to the lower acreage by reason of any
additional water obtained from the Narrows
project. In short water years, there is serious
doubt as to whether there would be enough water
to accomplish this.

All these problems would not be present
with main stem storage at the Weld County site.
From the weld County site, deliveries could be
made to the entire Bijou System and to the
entire Riverside System if water is available.
Additional water, if available, could also be
sold and deli;ered to the Weldon Valley System.
All this could be done without impairing the
water available for deliveries lower on tpe
river. In other words, as between the Narrows
site and the Weld County site, you can serve an
additional 55,000 acres of land and make one
additional use of water without impairing the
water available for deliveries to the lower
part of the South Platte.

It is our position that when a project of
this sort is being planned and undertaken that
will ignore approximately a third of the irri-
gated land that is in serious need of water

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