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<br />;fi; <br /> <br />3217 <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />4. <br /> <br />WATER RIGHT - Booth - Orchard Grove Ditch (Pueblo County) <br /> <br />CASE NUMBER - W-145 (1972) (Water Division 2) <br /> <br />TOTAL ACRES - 1400 <br /> <br />TOTAL MOVED - 18 of 30.3 d.s.; 9000 aJ. of diversions <br /> <br />% MOVED - 100% <br /> <br />ACREAGE DRIED UP TO DATE - 1,400 acres (100%) however wells augmented by <br />transmountain water are used to re-irrigate part of the acreage. <br /> <br />FROM - Irrigator <br /> <br /> <br />TO - Pueblo Board of Water Works <br /> <br />DATE - 1970 Purchase Contract; 1972 Water Court Decree and dryup <br /> <br />PRICE - $4,500,000 <br /> <br />DECREED TERMS AND CONDITIONS - <br /> <br />- 12.3 cJ.s. abandoned <br /> <br />( ') _ permanent prohibition of irrigation of historically irrigated lands with native Arkansas <br />River water <br /> <br />- direct use only <br /> <br />- protections of Cen-Tel non-irrigation right (an intervening right) <br /> <br />AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS - Total loss of acreage <br />recent use as lawn grass sod farm by use of transmountain water. <br /> <br />ECONOMIC IMPACTS -The water was purchased primarily for u~e at the Comanche Power <br />Plant of Public Service of Colorado. The power plant is now the largest taxpayer in Pueblo County. <br />Similar to that of the Bessemer Ditch, potential on a larger scale depending upon the size of the <br />turf farm. <br /> <br />, SOCIAL IMPACTS - Potential for loss of young farmers. <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS - The land closest to Pueblo has not been revegetated and for <br />the most part is in noxious weeds. <br /> <br />COMMENTS - Information from Decree and Bud O'Hara, Water Resources Division Manager, <br />Pueblo Board of Waterworks, 11\23\92; Bill Milenski comments; Kevin Pratt comments. <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />1\2-7 <br /> <br />. .. : " :,:--~,~,,:,~,,~~.,::,:~~~.~~:-,><-O:'7'~-'~"'~-": <br />