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<br />3223 <br /> <br />8. WATER RIGHT - Busk Ivanhoe Transmountain System (Otero County) <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />CASE NUMBER - 90CW340 (Water Division 5) (Involves only the Pueblo Board of Water <br />Works interests) <br /> <br />TOTAL ACRES - 24,100 to 26,000 acres are under the HighIine Ditch - 1 share per acre <br /> <br />TOTAL MOVED - Total average annual diversion 6,148 ac ft. approximately. 2500 ac ft to <br />Aurora, 700 ac ft to Pueblo, 2000 ac ft leased back to farmers throughout the Arkansas Valley <br />yearly by Pueblo. <br /> <br />% MOVED - 96% purchased away from irrigators <br /> <br />ACREAGE DRIED UP TO DATE - None, the system was a supplemental supply for the <br />Highline Ditch lands <br /> <br />FROM - HighIine Ditch shareholders <br /> <br />TO - 50% Pueblo Board of Water Works <br />- 46% Aurora (Busk Ivanhoe Inc. - 95% owned by Aurora) <br />- 4% farmers (one family) <br /> <br />DATE - 1971 purchased by Pueblo <br />1986-87 purchased by Aurora <br /> <br />( ) <br /> <br />PRICE - Aurora paid $5000 per share or approximately $3000 per ac. ft. in 1986-87 <br /> <br />DECREED TERMS AND CONDITIONS - decree pending <br /> <br />AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS - This water provided between 3 and 6 percent of the average <br />decree for the High Line Canal Company. The cost of maintaining the transmountain diversions <br />and tunnel was not economically feasible for agricultural use, In drought conditions, these offsets <br />may not be available and a reduction in the number of farmable acres is possible, <br /> <br />ECONOMIC IMPACTS. Limited impact on agriculture from the stand point of production, <br />but a reduction in agricultural debt was apparent. <br /> <br />SOCIAL IMPACTS - None that appear significant at this time. <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS - As indicated above, little present impact on agriculture, <br /> <br />COMMENTS - The Busk-Ivanhoe system was expensive to maintain. Once the Pueblo <br />Reservoir Winter Storage Program was decreed, the Highline shareholders felt an adequate supply <br />was available and sold the remainder of the Busk.lvanhoe System. Pueblo actually spent the <br />$5,359,000 for the Las Animas Town Ditch which was then traded for the 50%, <br />Information from Bud O'Hara, Water Resources Division Manager, Pueblo Board of <br />Waterworks, 11/23/92 and 12/22/92 and Doug Kemper, Water Resources Manager, City of Aurora, <br />12/11/92; research by Kevin Pratt; impacts by Bill Milenski. <br /> <br />( ) <br />"-_/ <br /> <br />A2-13 <br /> <br />