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<br />, <br />, <br /> <br />-33- <br /> <br />Bijou No.2 Reservoir) water represented by the 2,894 shares of <br /> <br />Company stock owned by the District. This District water is de- <br /> <br />livered pro rata to each acre of District lands without any charge <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />for canal .shrinkage. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The District continues to purchase Company stock whenever <br />it can and eventually hopes to acquire all of the Company stock. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />The District does not own the entire storage right in the <br /> <br />Empire Reservoir. There are about 40 "private rights" in the <br /> <br />Empire Reservoir which, for the most part, are owned by persons <br />located under the Bijou system. The owners of these private <br /> <br />rights must bear the canal shrinkage in running this reservoir <br /> <br />water to their farm headgates. A maximum of 400 acre-feet is set <br /> <br />aside in the Empire Reservoir for the 40 private rights. The <br /> <br />balance belongs to the District taxpayers. The "value" of each <br /> <br />private right in Empire Reservoir varies with the amount of water <br /> <br />stored in the reservoir. Maximum farm headgate delivery would be <br /> <br />10 acre-feet per right. In 1966 each private right was worth 6.4 <br /> <br />acre-feet. Due to canal shrinkage, a farmer at the lower end of <br /> <br />the system could probably receive a maximum of only 8 acre-feet <br /> <br />per private right even if the reservoir were full. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(The Bijou system calculates water deliveries in terms of <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />"day-feet" rather than acre-feet. One "day-foot" equals one c/f/s <br /> <br />for 24 hours, or two acre-feet. This is different from other <br /> <br />systems in the area, and one must be careful to use correct figures <br /> <br />when dealing with water under the Bijou system.) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Bijou system incurs about a 35 percent shrink from its <br /> <br />headgate to the farm headgate. <br /> <br />The District pays a "running fee" to the Company of 53 cents <br /> <br />WQOOWAR{).CLYDE_SHERARD ANO ASSOCIATES <br />