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APPENDIX A-10 Fort Morgan Canal Augmentation Plan -Plan ID 0102528 <br />The Fort Morgan Reservoir and Irrigation Company (Fort Morgan R&I Co.) is a mutual ditch <br />company in Morgan County on the south side of the South Platte River in Water District 1 (see <br />Figure 1). The Fort Morgan Augmentation Plan decree (Case No. W-2692) consists of 90 wells, <br />a 1972 priority direct flow water right, and nine recharge facilities, including the ditch itself, <br />within the Fort Morgan R&I Co. service area. Additional recharge sites were decreed in Case <br />No. 94CW 185. Fort Morgan R&I Co. included an augmentation well and the ability to bypass <br />portions of the Fort Morgan Canal direct flow water right in the South Platte River as direct <br />augmentation supplies in its pending Water Court application to amend its augmentation plan <br />(Case No. 04CW72). <br />The number of wells associated with the augmentation plan from sources reviewed for this effort <br />is summarized in Table 1. <br />Table 1 <br />Wells Associated with Fort Morgan Canal Augmentation Plan (Plan ID 0102528) <br />Source Number of Wells <br />W-2692 decree 90 <br />HydroBase association (Version 20060816) 103 <br />Tied to acreage in GIS Irrigated Acreage Assessment* 85 <br />User interview 92 <br />* Subset of HydroBase association using wells decreed for irrigation with decreed rates greater than 50 gpm and specifically tied <br />to lands in the 2001 Irrigated Acreage Assessment. <br />A number of possible explanations exist for the variation in number of wells listed in the decree <br />versus HydroBase, including: <br />• Some augmentation plan decrees allow wells to be added to the plan without re-adjudicating <br />the plan. <br />• Some wells listed in HydroBase may be recharge wells, augmentation wells, or decreed for <br />other uses. <br />• Some wells may have been replaced and the original wells are still included in HydroBase. <br />A number of possible explanations exist for the variation in number of wells tied to acreage from <br />the list of wells in HydroBase, including: <br />• Wells may be mis-located in the GIS coverage and therefore not assigned to irrigated <br />parcel(s). <br />• Wells are not active. <br />• Wells not decreed or decreed for less than 50 gallons per minute. <br />• Wells are decreed for other uses (e.g., augmentation, recharge, domestic, municipal, <br />commercial, stock water, etc.). <br />• The association of a well to the augmentation plan ID may be incorrect in HydroBase. <br />System Overview <br />Diversions to recharge through the Fort Morgan Canal are made whenever the 1972 junior direct <br />flow recharge right is in priority. The ditch company prefers to run recharge water when there is <br />no irrigation water carried through the system because they only receive recharge credit for the <br />A-54 ofA-106 <br />