PROJ00001

• Contract/PO #: C153168
• Contractor Name: Delta, City of
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 40
• County: Delta
• Bill Number: SB 77-35
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Several other flow water rights claimed by the City of Delta
are used strictly for filling various reservoirs. These decrees
include a carrying right in the Mountain View Mesa Ditch No. 2 at the
headgate No.2 (also known as the Dugger Feeder Ditch) and the Porter
Reservoir No. 1 Feeder Ditch.

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Several other decrees acquired by the City of Delta prior to
1975 have original points of diversion below convenient intake points
on the City's pipelines. It was intended that the acquisition of
downstream water rights would serve as a buffer to protect the other
water rights the City was appropriating. The water rights which are
not presently used by the City of Delta include decrees in the Granby
Ditch, the Red Rock Ditch and enlargements, and irrigation decrees in
the Orchard Mesa Ditch and enlargement.

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Some of the decrees owned by the City of Delta are still
being used for irrigation of crops on ranches owned by the City of
Delta at various locations. These include water rights in the Hoosier
Ditch and enlargement, the Delta County Ditch, the Blake Ditch, the
Oak Valley Ditch and enlargement, the Teachout Ditch, the Oak Creek
No. 2 Ditch, and Louck's Ditch. These water rights were originally
adjudicated for irrigation use only and have headgate locations below
convenient intakes into the City's pipelines.

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The City of Delta recently received favorable rulings from the
water referee of Division No. 4 in its requests for several changes
necessary to use all of these decrees, except those in Louck's Ditch,
for domestic and municipal purposes. A change in use and location of
the point of diversion can be made providing no adverse affect exists
or that a suitable formula can be provided to eliminate adverse
affect. Such formula must recognize both time and quantity of
consumptive use of each decree that existed prior to the proposed
change. To provide for any adverse affect to the streams concerned,
each of Delta's water rights proposed for diversion at the alternate
points were ordered to be restricted to 25 percent of the original
irrigation decree whenever the water is taken at the alternate point.
Since these decrees were originally for irrigation purposes, their
use is for a period of approximately six months of the year during
the irrigation season.

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In order to provide a legal basis for diverting surface
flows in Oak Creek during the non-irrigation season, the City
has recently applied for and received a favorable ruling for
a new conditional decree in Oak Creek for domestic and municipal
use. As of March 1975, the City appeared to have the legal
authority to divert an additional 8.793 c.f.s. into the raw water
supply collection system including the recent conditional decree on
Oak Creek.

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