PROJ00044

• Contract/PO #: FS0011X
• Contractor Name: Cotton Creek Water Company
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 0
• County: Moffat
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Cotton Creek Water Company

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Anne Silver Philleo, President

John Mattingly, Manager

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24299 Road 62
Moffat, CO 81143-9729
[phone]

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February 20, 1992

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Dear Stockholders,

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Cotton Creek Water Company now has been operated for many years
without substantial work being done to its delivery system.
Primary and lateral ditches, the Reservoir, and the main diversion
structure all need repair or improvement. During the period that
Travelers Insurance Company was the major stockholder, nothing was
done to the system; it simply was used and some cases, abused.

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When I became manager of the company in 1988, the successor major
stockholder, Cotton Creek Ranch, Inc. and later the Elizabeth B.
Silver Trust, authorized me to begin repairing and improving the
Cotton Creek Water Company system. Since that time we have spent
in excess 'of $45,000 to clean and stabilize upper reaches of the
Creek, build a protective flood overflow structure, remove silt
from the Reservoir, install n€w outlet works from the Reservoir,
and commence work on the lateral ditches. Though our efforts have
made the system more manageable, much remains to be done.

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In the next three years, the Company should accomplish the
following major projects:

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(1) Install a flow meter with a recording tape in the diversion structure at
the mouth of Cotton Creek Canyon. This will allow a record to be kept of the
Creek flow rates. The record will assist in the administration of the
Company's water rights.
(2) Rip-rap the out-take on the upper flood overflow structure and remove all
phreatophytes from the out-take reach of the Creek.
(3) Alter to the south the Creek channel at the Road CC crossing to decrease
the chance of overflow to the west.
(4) Remove all phreatophytes from the main west lateral leading into the
Reservoir and replace with a stable earthen ditch.
(5) Increase the height of the earthen headwall at the entry to the Cotton
Creek Ranch filtration ponds.
(6) Rebuild the main south lateral to a carrying capacity of 20
cfs and feed the lateral into a small regulating pond, at the north edge of
Section 34.
(7) Enlarge and seal the Reservoir.
(8) Remove the old concrete ditches that lay to the south and west of the
Reservoir and replace with stable earthen ditches. The removed concrete and
dirt to be moved directly to the upstream slope of the Reservoir for rip-rap.
(9) Develop a flood plan with Saguache County.

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