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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />!'l " ~, ., ~ 3 <br />J _;..... oJ J <br /> <br />The Barr Lake Plan incorporates the water rights, storage reservoirs, canals and other <br />facilities of the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company ("FRlCO"), the Burlington Ditch <br />Reservoir and Land Company ("Burlington") and the Henrylyn Irrigation District ("Henrylyn") <br />into an integrated metropolitan water supply and storage system. Collectively FRlCO, <br />Burlington and Henrylyn will be referred to as the "Companies". The Plan makes available to <br />municipalities or others the first use of 1 00,000 acre feet of average annual diversions and <br />over 150,000 acre feet of adjudicated storage. <br /> <br />The Companies diven an average of 100,000 acre feet of water per year into the Burlington- <br />O'Brian Canal. Under the Barr Lake Plan, the Companies will allow municipalities or other <br />upstream users the first use of their annual diversions. After municipal use, the effluent will be <br />upgraded beyond existing converttional municipal treatment and then returned to the <br />Companies' agricultural users for seasonal irrigation. <br /> <br />The system operated by the Companies is the largest water diversion and storage system in the <br />Denver metropolitan area. Integrating the use of these existing facilities into a cooperative <br />water supply plan will provide more than 50,000 acre feet of existing surface storage rights, <br />an adjudicated alluvial storage system providing in excess of 100,000 acre feet of additional <br />storage capacity, and several hundred miles of diversion and transponation canals. <br /> <br />Through cooperative use of these existing facilities and by increasing the efficiency of use of <br />existing water rights, additional supplies can be developed and municipal needs can be <br />accommodated without the necessity of constructing new dams. These supplies can be <br />developed in a manner which benefits and preserves a large agricultural community, the <br />unique wildlife habitat at Barr Lake, and the other reservoirs throughout the Companies' <br />extensive systems. <br /> <br />1 <br />