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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Fossil Creek Reservoir received effluent from the
City of Fort Collins and South Fort Collins Sanitation District
Sewage Treatment Plants. This allows these facilities to not
discharge directly into the River, but does not provide a direct
income to North Poudre Irrigation Company.

c. Fish and wildlife. No value is assigned to this facility
as a-rishery, as it provides only recreational fishing.

As a wildlife area, the reservoir provides an economic
return for goose and duck hunting, not only to the North Poudre
Irrigation Company, but to surrounding property owners. The
areas adjacent to the reservoir is closed to goose hunting,
but it is estimated that an excess of fifty blinds are maintain-
ed within a one mile perimeter of the restricted area.

Hunting rights on North Poudre Irrigation Company
property at Fossil Creek currently are leased for $2,750 per
year but is restricted to ducks only.

d. Recreation. The boating and recreational rights to the
reservoir are currently leased to Harris Marine at a rate of
$7,500 per year. It is anticipated that in the future, the
value of such a site will greatly increase as urbanization
increases.

e. Drainage. Fossil Creek Reservoir and spillway will mitigate
a flood on Fossil Creek from more than 28 square miles of up-
stream basin, The PMP inflow design flood is reduced from 80,800
cfs inflow to approximately 61,900 cfs outflow. If a value of
$100 per cfs mitigated were applied, the resulting value would be
$1,890,000. This would be representative of the reduction in damage
to property downstream from the dam site to Greeley. This
occurrence might be set at 1,000 years or an annual value of
$1,890.

In addition to the above benefits, Fossil Creek Reservoir
is in a location on the river which allows for its use as a
regulating reservoir to the river. Mr. Jack Neutze, Poudre
River Commissioner, uses flows into and out of the reservoir
to help maximize the utilization of normal flows and decrees
out of the Cache La Poudre River.

The benefit of proceeding with this project results
from the fact that were it constructed in the immediate future,
the costs of the project are fi~ed over the next 40 years and
the benefits escalate with infl~tion. If the project is not
constructed, the use of the reservoir would decrease to the
point of obsolescence in 40 yea.s or less.

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