PROJ00414

• Contract/PO #: C153326
• Contractor Name: Fruitland Mesa Water Conservancy District
• Contract Type: Grant
• Water District: 0
• County: Montrose
• Bill Number: XB 99-999
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Cost of Structural Additions ($) 1,408,000

and Improvements

Average Annual Benefit ($) 623,794
(3% Rate of Interest)

Benefit Cost Ratio 3.1411

(3% Rate of Interest)

Average Annual Benefit ($) 571,024
(7% Rate of Interest)

Benefit Cost Ratio 1.65
(7% Rate of Interest)

Percentage of benefit in terms of
reduction of shortage

Crystal Valley Area

Upper Iron Creek Area

3,372,000

935,095

3.1111

855,939

1.63

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2.0

5.4

18.5

0.4

73.7

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Lower Iron Creek Area

Upper Fruitland Mesa Area

Lower Fruitland Mesa Area

0.6

2.2

18.5

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78.7

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11 Blc ratio considering negative impacts.

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8. The current adjudicated storage water rights of the Gould
Reservoir are 15,585 acre feet annually. The proposed project
would require storage of up to 18,500 acre feet of water in the
reservoir through one annual cycle to provide hold over storage
for irrigation in the critical latter part of the irrigation
season. The ditch water rights of irrigators deriving benefits
from this storage will have to be adjusted to provide additional
storage rights at Gould.

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9. The results of operation study summarized above and presented
in this report give the amounts of the water shortages, irriga-
tion efficiencies, and the periods of shortage over the period of
25 years of available data. The basic assumptions are: 1) all
water diverted from the sources considered in this study could be
routed through the reservoir storage and released on call, as and
when needed, to areas below the Gould Reservoir, and 2) the

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