WSP00062

• File Number: 8276.140
• Description: Grand Valley Unit-Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/14/1986
• Title: Evaluation and Recommendations Concerning the Authority of the Grand Valley Irrigation Company to Undertake Salinity Control Measures Pursuant to the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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not limited to, the acquisition of easements and
rights-of-way over lateral ditches and canals taking
their water from the system of canals now owned and
operated by The Grand Valley Irrigation Company, the
installation and construction of salinity control
systems, devices and improvements for such laterals and
canals that may include pipelines, membranes or other
salt-reducing devices in lateral ditches and canals,
the long-term operation and maintenance of the lateral
ditches and canals, and all acts and measures which are
reasonably or necessarily related to the performance of
the foregoing activities.

We recommend that Article Third be amended to include

reference to the Kiefer Extension Ditch and Fruita Land & Canal

Company, where shown in full capitals below:

THIRD. The stream from which the water for the
canals or ditches of this corporation shall be taken is
the Grand River. (Now known as the Colorado River.)
The point or place on said stream at which the water is
to be taken out is a point on said river about one
thousand four hundred and twenty (1,420) feet south of
the northeast corner of Section 3, Township 1, South of
Range 2 East, Ute Principal Meridian, under a ledge of
rock. The line of the ditch and canal of this company
runs, for the first twelve miles in a westerly
direction, down Grand Valley, to a point in said ditch
known as The Little Drop. From thence two branches or
laterals run down the valley, in a westerly direction,
to the end thereof, about fifteen miles, and also a
feeder, known as the Independent Ranchmen's Feeder, and
also one known as the Mesa County Ditchl and also one
known as the Pioneer Extension Ditchl AND ALSO ONE
KNOWN AS THE KIEFER EXTENSION DITCHl the general line
of which extensions and feeders run westerly down the
valley. A more particular description of which said
ditches and the lines thereof will be found in the
recorded Certificates of Incorporation of the Grand
River Ditch Company, the Grand Valley Canal Company,
the Mesa County Di tch Company, the Independent
Ranchmen's Ditch Association, the Pioneer Ditch
Extension Company, which have been recorded in the
office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Mesa County,
which records are hereby referred to for greater
certainty. THE LINE OF THE KIEFER EXTENSION DITCH
BEGINS AT A POINT ON THE GRAND VALLEY CANAL OF THE
GRAND VALLEY IRRIGATION COMPANY ONE HUNDRED FIFTY FEET
NORTH OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER

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