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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I IDYLWILD PIPELINE (Power Priority No.2, Power Pipeline No.2) 1. This pipeline is the Idylwild Pipeline. The claimant of this Pipeline is the City of Loveland, a Municipal Corporation in Larimer County, Colorado. 2. The Idylwild Pipeline was constructed and has been used, operated, and maintained for the diversion of water for power purposes. 3. The natural stream from which water has been diverted by means of said Pipeline is the Big Thompson River. 4. The headgate of said Idylwild Pipeline is located on the south bank of the Big Thompson River at a point from whence the east quarter corner of Section 2, Township 5 north, Range 71 west of the 6th PM bears South 52 3' East 884 feet. 5. The said Pipeline runs in a general southeasterly direction to a certain hydroelectric plant owned and operated by claimant and located in the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 7, Township 5 north, Range 70 west on the 6th PM, a distance of approximately two miles from the headgate of said Pipeline. That said Pipeline has an inside diameter of 36 inches, a grade of 10 feet per one thousand feet, and a carrying capacity of 74 cubic feet of water per second of time. 6. The work of construction of said Pipeline was commenced by survey on the 14th day of July, 1913, and thereafter claimant did use due diligence in the construction and completion of said Pipeline, and did complete the same on or about the 1st day of January, 1925. 7. That upon completion of said Pipeline, water was diverted to the extent of its carrying capacity and used for the manufacture of electric power in claimant's said hydroelectric plant, and water has been diverted through said pipeline continuously thereafter whenever water was needed, and was available for the manufacture of electric power.