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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It should be emphasized that while the City may have the right
to divert and use up to the decreed amount, it will only be able to
divert that portion in which no prior claim is made and which is
actually available in the stream at the time. The quantities estimated
to be actually available will be discussed later in this section.

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The details of each flow decree are shown in Table II-I, and
general descriptions are given in the following paragraphs. The
locations of all water rights claimed by the City of Delta will be
shown on a map of the raw water transmission pipelines which will
appear in the next section.

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The Delta Pipeline right for 4.00 c.f.s. from Doughspoon
Creek is a transferred decree. It Was originally known as the Maud S.
Ditch decree and was obtained from George H. Whitelaw and Reed Burritt
in 1904. By court action in 1905, Delta was granted a transfer to
divert this water at a point higher in the Doughspoon drainage basin
at the intake of the original Delta Pipeline. This is an extremely
valuable right on Doughspoon Creek because of its low priority number.

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The Doughspoon Ditch has an absolute water right for 0.375
c.f.s. which was originally decreed for irrigation purposes. On
November 10, 1951, in the District Court under Civil Action 3724, the
City of Delta was granted an alternate point of diversion at an intake
of the Doughspoon Aqueduct in the East Fork of Doughspoon Creek and a
change in use from irrigation to domestic and municipal purposes.

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The Kelly Creek extension to the City of Delta Pipeline
is a short spur line off of the Dirty George Creek Aqueduct
to collect flows in Kelly Creek. The decree carries a relatively
recent appropriation date and water is therefore usually only avail-
able in the winter months when prior irrigation water rights owned by
others are not being used. The City has recently been awarded absolute
decrees bringing the total absolute rights to 3.0 c.f.s. for municipal
use.

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The Orchard Mesa Ditch first enlargement decree with Priority
Number A-116 for 1.0 c.f.s. carries an early adjudication date of
1914. The filing shows that water from Dirty George Creek was
initially carried in a southwesterly direction across Grand Mesa by
the Orchard Mesa Ditch to an intake high on the Delta Water Works
Pipeline, shown in this report as the original Delta Pipeline. Records
also show that this water right Was initially granted directly to the
City of Delta for irrigation usage. Later in 1932 in Court Case Number
2521, the City of Delta Was allowed to transfer this water right
to the Delta Pipeline headgate on Dirty George Creek. Then in 1951, by
Court Case Number 3724, the City was granted an alternate right to

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