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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Storage Water Rights

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A list of storage water rights on Grand Mesa owned by
the City of Delta or which the City has an interest in is shown
in Table 11-2. The City apparently now owns or has a legal interest
in a total of 2330.36 acre-feet in absolute decrees and 244.17
acre-feet in conditional decrees, exclusive of the Control Reservoir
storage. The reservoirs owned by the City include the Delta City No.
1 Reservoir, the Burnett Reservoir, the Pitcairn Reservoir, the
Dugger Reservoir, the Porter Reservoirs, White's Cabin Reservoir, the
White Stabilization Reservoir, the Morris Reservoir NO.2, the Delta
Control Reservoir, and the Howard Reservoir.

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The City of Delta also has interests in the Battlement
Mesa Ditch and Reservoir Company, the Basin Reservoir Company,
and the Granby Ditch and Reservoir Company. The details of the
decrees are shown in Table 11-2, and a general description of
each reservoir is included in the following paragraphs.

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The Delta City No. 1 Reservoir and Burnett Reservoirs have an
interesting and perhaps confusing history. The Delta City No.
1 Reservoir is also commonly known as the Doughspoon Reservoir, but
at one time it has apparently been referred to as the Doughspoon
Ranche Reservoir No.1. The Burnett Reservoir is also known as the
Delta Reservoir and sometimes as the Little Doughspoon, but at one
time was apparently referred to as the Delta No. 2 Reservoir or the
Doughspoon Ranche Reservoir No.2. The history of the reservoirs are
explained below.

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In 1897, a statement of claim to water right by the Town
of Delta, represented by Mayor A. H. Stockham, for the Delta
Reservoirs No. 1 and 2, and the original Delta Pipeline for
one cubic-foot per second was prepared, but apparently no record
of this filing was made in the County Court House. The statement
described both dams to be 15 feet high. The Delta Reservoir
No. 1 was described as having a capacity of approximately 60
acre-feet and the No.2 Reservoir as having a capacity of approxi-
mately 25 acre-feet. Work on the Delta Reservoirs was alleged to have
commenced in 1897, but there is evidence that indicates that
the survey for the proposed Delta Pipeline from the headwaters
of Doughspoon Creek did not take place until 1903.

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