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<br />Director's Report Attachment - March 22 - 23, 2005 Board Meeting <br />Water Supply Planning and Finance Section <br />Design and Construction Status Report <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The CWCB Water Supply Planning and Finance Section has completed 15 projects in FY 04-05 to-date. Currently for <br />FY 04-05 we have 29 projects under construction and 26 projects in the design phase. involving over $143.000,000 in <br />loan funds <br /> <br />The att..ached spreadsheet summarizes project status including budget, construction schedule, and progress to date. <br />During this current reporting period no projects were completed. <br /> <br />The attached progress report briefly outlines all active project design and construction information and progress to date. <br /> <br />Proiects Under Construction <br /> <br />1. Low Line Ditch Comoanv - Augmentation Proiect <br /> <br />Authorization: Construction Fund <br />Water Source: South Platte River <br />Terms of Loan: $94,500 @2.75% for 30-years <br /> <br />County: Logan <br />Project Yield: 6,650 acre-feet <br />Project Type: Augmentation/Diversion <br /> <br />The Low Line Ditch Company operates the Lowline Ditch for delivery of irrigation water within a 2.070-acre service <br />area. The headgate for the ditch is located in Logan County, at the Town of Sterling. This project includes <br />construction of 4 augmentation ponds and drilling one augmentation wen to generate augmentation credits to cover <br />depletions for 13 irrigation wells used by stockholders of the Company. Additionally the Ditch Company is . <br />rehabilitating their diversion structure on the South Platte to include new gates, walk platform, and concrete <br />diversion walls. Brent Nation, Nation Engineering Services is the design engineer. The diversion structure work <br />has been completed and the augmentation efforts are scheduled for completion in April of 2004. <br /> <br />2. Lake Henry Reservoir Comoanv - Lake Henry Rehabilitation Proiect <br /> <br />Authorization: Construction Fund <br />Water Source: Arkansas <br />Terms of Loan: $490,000 @4.25% for 30-years <br /> <br />County: Crowley - Near Ordway <br />Project Yield: 9,500 acre-feet <br />Project Type: Reservoir Rehabilitation <br /> <br />Lake Henry Reservoir is located approximately 5 miles northeast of Ordway and is filled by the Colorado Canal, which <br />diverts water from the Arkansas River. The existing dam was constructed in the early 1900's and was enlarged in <br />1951. The existing reservoir is a Class 2 structure, 18-ft high, impounding approximately 9,500 acre-feet of water. <br />Annual maintenance and repair have been needed to keep the dam in operation and in compliance with the State <br />Engineer's Office. The reservoir has seepage problems and has no emergency spillway. The proposed improvements <br />to the reservoir are the construction of a toe drain system and the construction of a new 400-ft. wide spillway to <br />acconunodate 50% of the Probable Maximum Flood (pMF). Toe drain installation was completed in September of <br />2004 and the spillway improvements to the reservoir were recently completed in January of2005. The Company is <br />anticipating having SEO approval on the dam improvements in April of2005. Project substantial completion is <br />sc~edu1ed for May of2005. <br /> <br />3. Smart Brothers Incorporated - Well Augmentation Proiect <br /> <br />Authorization: Severance Tax Account <br />Water Source: South Platte <br />Terms of Loan: $239.850 @2.50% for 30 years <br /> <br />County: Logan <br />Project Yield: 1,500 ac.ft. <br />Project Type: Well Augmentation <br /> <br />. <br />