WSP02245

• File Number: 8443.800
• Description: Narrows Unit - Water Sales and Contracts
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 5/1/1964
• Author: Justin H. Haynes App
• Title: Appraisal Preliminary Estimate of Value of Land to be Acquired in Fee Flood Easements and Severance Damages
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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1.

Areas to be acquired in fee and areas of the flood easement have been

based on information obtained from maps furnished by the U. S. Bureau

of Reclamation.

2.

Information concerning ownerships of the various parcels affected by the

proposed taking, legal description of these parcels and other pertinent

information has been obtained from public records and is presumed to be

correct.

3.

Acreages in the individual ownerships have been obtained from public

records and presumed to be correct.

4.

Valuation of property to be acquired and damages to remainder have been

based on the assumption that the point of diversion of affected canals

would be changed without loss of priority and that, whenever necessary,

these canals will be realigned to serve the remaining areas. We have

assumed that the cost of change of point of diversion and realignment,

together with any other necessary expenses required to maintain the

canals in a similar operable condition, would be borne by the taking

authority.

5.

The three exhibits described herein are a part of this report.

6.

This preliminary estimate of value of land taken, flood easements and

damages to remainder has been developed in accordance with the pro-

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cedures outlined in a subsequent section of this report.

The term "Current Market Value II as used in this report is defined as the

amount of money that a well informed buyer is justified in paying and a