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<br />001128 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />II. EAST SLOPE WATER ADJUDICATIONS <br />A. Cache la Poudre River <br />This adjudication went to decree of Larimer County <br />District Court, entered by Judge Claude C. Coffin, September <br />10, 1953. The adjudication was entered by the District by <br />statements of claims for its works receiving water from <br />Cache la Poudre supplies. The chief one of these is Horse- <br />tooth Reservoir, which receives water from intermittent <br />small creeks that its eastern dams intercept, Spring Creek, <br />Dixon Creek and Soldier Creek. There will sometimes be in- <br />tercept~ons of sudden and violent floods by these dams. <br />Its appropriations were decreed to date from survey of <br />October 15, 1935. <br />The United States, as construction and repayment con- <br />tractor, with the district, after our testimony given, <br />finished construction of North Poudre Supply Canal, begun <br />by survey of January 12, 1943, to tap the main Poudre River <br />and lead water thence by gravity northeasterly. North Poudre <br />Canal thus connects with the main river to make available <br />by our ditch, the Cache la Poudre River. The cost to the <br />District will be large. The District presented its claims <br />for appropriations by North Poudre Supply Canal. Several <br />days were occupied in testimony and in the arguments, and <br />in watching that of other claimants having possibility of <br />claims adverse to District interests. <br />The District's claims for appropriations were contested <br />by the North Poudre Irrigation Company, by the Sherwood <br />Irrigation Company, the Mail Creek Ditch Company, the <br />Larimer County Canal #2 Irrigating Company, and the New <br />Mercer Ditch Company. All these contesting ditch companies <br />were represented by the same counsel as North Poudre Irri- <br />gation Company. <br /> <br />-20- <br /> <br />- <br />