PROJ00187

• Contract/PO #: C153385
• Contractor Name: North Poudre Irrigation Company
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 3
• County: Larimer
• Bill Number: SB 82-87
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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CHAPTER rv, WATER

Water requirements.

(1) The water from Fossil Creek Reservoir is released
so that it returns directly to the Cache La Poudre
River from the outlet ditch which travels north-
easterly to the rive~. The records for 1980 are
illustrative of the ~onthly amount of water delivered
from the reservoir. Please see Appendix "A" for
Fossil Creek storage and releases from May to
September for 1980.

This water, after being released from Fossil Creek
Reservoir, is taken at the headgate of different
irrigation companies. These are New Cache La
poudre Irrigation Co~pany; The Whitney Ditch
Company; Greeley Number Three; and B. H. Eaton
Ditch Company. Thes~ companies deliver to farmers
along the company ditches.

Table 7, Appendix "A", is a copy from the "Interim Report
South Platte River Bc1sin Assessment" prepared for
The Colorado Water conservation B~ard by Woodward-
Clyde Consultants dated August 1981. This report
probably illustrates the consumptive use of crops
in the general area served with water from Fossil
Creek Reservoir because North Poudre Irrigation
Company believes consuptive use would be similar.

(2) Because the water from Fossil Creek Reservoir
benefits North Poudre stockholders by exchange,
North Poudre cannot extend the requirements to
land in the North poudre area. However, this same
study referred to above is probably illustrative
of the consumptive use for the acreage~ in the
North Poudre area.

(3) North Poudre estimates there is no loss of water
from the Fossil CreeK inlet ditch to the point it
is received in the Fossil Creek Reservoir. This
is because additionaL water is picked up from
seepage and springs in the area of the inlet ditch.
Also North Poudre doesn't have a loss because its
charges for water are based on the gauge height in
the reservoir and not by measuring water from the
time it leaves the river and at the time it enters
the reservoir. The delivery ditch does not cover

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