PROJ00434

• Contract/PO #: C153337
• Contractor Name: Farmers Extension Ditch & Highland Lake Lateral Company
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 1
• County: Weld
• Bill Number: FSA
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

There are other measuring devices available such as weirs and flumes of different

designs. However, we feel for the money which will be spent, they are either

not as accurate, more difficult to maintain, more costly to build or have not

been widely field tested, and therefore, should not be considered. Approximate

costs of these measuring devices are shown as follows:

Metering gates - $1,500
Parshall Flumes - $2,500

'This is an installed price based on
,a measuring device capable of carrying
five (5) to six (6) c.f.s.

These prices include the measuring device and installation. We recommend that

whichever device is used that there be one ,device for each irrigated field ir-

respective of who owns the stock. This should be a standard practice through-

out the system. The primary reason is thaG individual records can be maintained

for each field. There are cases now where a shareholder has two (2) or more out-

lets from the ditch at the same location which supply water to different fields.

It may seem desirable to consolidate the flows to a single device, however,

problems could arise if the present shareholder should decide to sell his property.

It it becomes advantageous to have only one outlet for two (2) or three (3) fields,

the water should immediately enter a distribution box and then flow through in-

dividual meters before letting the water proceed to the fields. Any time a new

shareholder is allowed to take water from the ditch and a turnout is not provided

along with that change in ownership, it is recommended that the new shareholder

be required to pay for an additional gate for his own use and have it installed

by the ditch company or a representative thereof.

Check Structures:

Each stockholder is provided water through a measuring gate as shown in the

previous section. The elevation E1 is obtained by adjusting the check structures

along the ditch. The check strucutres along this ditch are all made of concrete,

The water in the ditch is checked, or raised in elevation by placing wooden

planks across the width of the ditch, thus raising the weir height. When the

water is raised enough to deliver the flow needed through a metering gate; checking

is halted.

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