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<br />CHAPTER 1 <br /> <br />GENERAL <br /> <br />The Water Supply and Storage Company facilities in northeastern <br />stretch over a distance of 75 airline miles, from the heading of the <br />River Ditch to the tail of the ditch system lying north of Greeley. <br />showing features of the Company's system is presented on Figure No. <br /> <br />Colorado <br />Grand <br />A map <br />1. <br /> <br />The Larimer County Canal, the Company's primary water delivery carrier, <br />peads on the left bank of the Cache 1a Poudre River in Section 13, T 8 N, <br />R 70 W, seven miles upstream from Fort Collins. The irrigated lands of the <br />Company lie north and east of Fort Coll ins over a distance of 24 mi les. <br /> <br />The Long Draw Reservoir enlargement project site is located 37 miles <br />west of Fort Collins on Long Draw Creek*, a tributary of the Cache la Poudre <br />River, three miles NE of the Continental Divide at Poudre Pass. The ele- <br />vation of Long Draw Reservoir is approximately 10,100 feet. Access to Long <br />Draw.Reservoir is by U. S. Highway 287 and State Highway 14 from Fort Collins <br />along the Cache la Poudre River to Chambers Lake. The reservoir lies an <br />additional ten miles along Forest Service roads beyond Chambers Lake. Long <br />Draw Reservoir also has access from Grand Lake by utilizing the service <br />road owned by the Company paralleling the Grand River Ditch. <br /> <br />, <br />----.',-' <br /> <br />The Grand River Ditch extends from its headgate on Baker Gulch in <br />Section 28, T 5 N, R 76 W to the Continental Divide at Poudre Pass in <br />Section 21, T 6 N, R 75 W, a distance of 15.0 miles. The elevation of the <br />Grand River Ditch varies from about elevation 10,175 feet at the pass to <br />a little over elevation 10,300 feet at its heading. The ditch heading lies <br />nine miles northwest of Grand Lake, Colorado. Access to the ditch service <br />road is from U. S. Highway 34, commonly known as Trail Ridge Road, which <br />crosses Rocky Mountain National Park. Most of the Grand River Dttch lies <br />within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park, created in 1915, <br />some 25 years after the Grand River Ditch water was appropriated. The Ditch <br />also has a South Feeder extending to Specimen Creek, with a length of 1.7 m.i.les. <br /> <br />CL 1 MATE <br /> <br />The climatic conditions vary widely between the irrigated lands of the <br />Company to the specific project area of the Grand River Ditch and Long Draw <br />Reservoir. The following table presents average montFdy temperatures and <br />rainfall for the Fort Collins, Greeley, and Grand Lake weather stations. <br />The Fort Collins and Greeley data is representative of the climate of the <br />irrigated lands, while Grand Lake was chosen to represent the cl imatic <br />conditions for the Grand River Ditch and Long Draw Reservoir. <br /> <br />*Also known as La Poudre Pass Creek <br />