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BIJOU IRRIGATION COMPANY <br />DIVERSION STRUCTURE REHABILITATION <br />~ ~ ~ ~.3.. <br />,~~ - ~. <br />._ <br />,~ <br />„,_, ~" <br />~ _ ~ ,._. <br />Project Description <br />The Bijou Irrigation Company is a Colorado non-profit corporation, providing irrigation water to a <br />24,000-acre service area in Weld and Morgan Counties, west and south of Fort Morgan. The <br />Company has direct flow rights at the Bijou Canal diversion on the South Platte, and maintains <br />about 90 miles of ditch, Bijou No. 2 Reservoir, and some augmentation ponds. The Company river <br />diversion structure/headgate consists of two components: 1) the ditch intake structure, which <br />consists of a structure with 5 steel radial gates to adjust flows into the Bijou Canal, that is in good <br />condition, and 2) the river diversion structure, used to divert flow into the ditch intake structure, <br />using a radial gate, slide gate and board system to divert flow into the ditch. The diversion structure <br />had suffered extreme damage in times of high flow in the river. Additionally, the structure could <br />not operate in a manner to reduce the sand upstream of the intake gates and debris flow. This <br />project involved the replacement of 96-feet of the approximately 200-feet of existing diversion <br />structure with an Obermeyer automated bladder gate system to increase diversion efficiency and to <br />reduce sediment and debris load in the canal. <br />Project Data <br />Sponsor: Bijou Irrigation Company County: Weld Water Source: South Platte River <br />Terms of Loan: $800,298.81 @2.25% for 30-yrs. Substantial Completion Date: June 1, 2008 <br />Design Engineer: Nation Engineering, Inc. -Fort Morgan, Colorado <br />Construction Contractor: Ransom Boone Construction, Inc. -Fort Morgan, CO <br />District Average Annual Diversion - 47,460 Acre-feet <br />Completed Obermeyer Diversion Structure <br />