WSP00020

• File Number: 8276.130
• Description: Grand Valley Unit-Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/10/1985
• Title: Formal Organizations for Operation of Laterals In the Grand Valley Unit of the Colorado Basin Salinity Control Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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sufficiently large area to be acceptable as a Proposed

Organization.

9. Private Ditch Companies.

(a) Grand Valley Water Users Associatior..

The Government Highline Canal and its associated "Government

Laterals" were constructed by the United States as a reclamation

project. Ownership of the canal and government laterals remains

in the United States. They are operated by the Grand Valley Water

Users Association (the "Association") under operation and

maintenance contract.

The Association is presently operating and maintaining the

laterals which were enclosed in pipe during Phase I of the Grand

Valley Unit. All ditches (laterals) from the Government Highline

Canal other than the Government Laterals are utilized to conduct

water of the other Subject Canals for the benefi1: of the persons

entitled thereto. Because the Association is the present operation

and maintenance agent for the United States for ,the Government

Highline and Government Laterals, it is assumed for purposes of

this report that it will continue to perform such function.

In addition to pumping and other facilities for transfer of

water carried in the Government Highline to the four other canal

systems in the Grand Valley, there are some 43 headgates from the

Government Highline which serve users of water decreed to the Stub

and Price Canals. The Association merely transports the water,

pursuant to carriage contracts, to the said pumping facilities and

headgates and exercises no jurisdiction or control over such water

once it has left the Government Highline Canal.

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