WSP08080

• File Number: 8443
• Description: Narrows Unit
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 5/2/1967
• Author: Woodward-Clyde Shera
• Title: Section II Special Investigation for the Coordinator of Natural Resources State of Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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books how much water he has coming to him during the balance of
the season.
One facet of this bookkeeping arrangement is a method of

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accounting for the water rights owned or leased in other systems
. by farmers under the Bijou. For instance, on a ledger sheet
headed "Jackson Lake" appear the names of three Bijou system far-
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mers who own Jackson Lake rights. In addi tion, for the year 1966,

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a fourth name was added, that of Robert Kula, who had leased two

Jackson Lake rights from Noble Higbee (Lower Platte and Beaver)

for the 1966 season.

Transfers from one farmer to another are handled by means of

written "water orders." Two different kinds are used: one for

intra-system transfers, addressed to the Bijou Irrigation Company,

and another for transfers in from outside the system. The ori-

ginals and carbon copies of these forms, which supposedly must be

signed by the water "seller", are kept permanently in the Bijou

office. Posting to the system's ledger books is done from the

originals.

These records are kept solely for the benefit of the Bijou

system, and copies of the "water orders" are not sent to other

systems. Thus, if a farmer under the Lower Platte and Beaver

were to lease his Jackson Lake water to a farmer under the Bijou,

the "water order" would appear on the Bijou books, but not on the

Jackson Lake books, and not, so far as we have yet been able to

tell, on the Lower Platte and Beaver books. It obviously must

be handled through the Water Commissioner, John L. Samples, since

otherwise such a system could not be operated if only the Bijou

system had any record of the transfers.

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WOODWARD.CLYDE.SHERARD AND ASSOCIATES