Wyoming Water Development Commission
2001 Irrigation System Survey Report
Report #2: Diversion/Conveyance


Diversion Conveyance
Entity Surface Source Type Capacity
cfs
Type Capacity
cfs
Length
miles
Return
Flows
Loss
%
Agrarian Irrigation







Alliance Ditch







Alto Canal Sprinkler Alto Canal Headgates
Ditch
7 No
Angel Draw Irrigation







Anita Ditch







Baggs Ditch Little Snake River Diversion Structure, Headgate 3 Canal 3 2 Yes
Baldwin Ditch







Bates Creek Reservoir Bates Creek-Dry Fork & North Fork Diversion Dam, Headgate 50 Natural Flow
3 No
Bear Canal Ditch Bear River-Bear Canal Ditch Headgate 165 Ditch 165 20 Yes 0
Bench Canal







Bertrom Ditch







Big Cottonwood Ditch







Big Goose and Beaver Ditch East Fork of Big Goose

Ditch
12 Yes 20
Big Horn Canal Irrigation Bighorn River Dam
Canal
56 No 0
Black's Fork Canal Blacks Fork River Cement, Steel Gates 425 Canal 425 20 Yes 12.5
Blue Bell Canal Stream Gravity Flow 12 Ditch 12
No
Bluff/Upper Bluff Ditch Concrete Dam

120 20 No20
Boulder Irrigation
Headgate 400 Ditch 400 14 Yes 20
BQ Canal Twin Creek, Bear River, Woodruff Narrows



19 Yes
Bridger Valley Water







Burbank Ditch Platte River Pump 7 Pipe 5 1 No 0
Burn-Cleuch Ditch Little Goose Cr Wooden Dam 13 Ditch 18 4 No 30
Butte Ditch Greybull River Natural Rock 50 Ditch 50 8 Yes 15
Cannon L & L Ditch Pumps
Pumps



Canyon Canal







Casper Alcova Irrigation North Platte River Headgates 1,500 Ditch 1,500 250 No
Castle Rock-Neff Ditch







Cemetary Ditch Popo Agie Head Wall, Screw Gate 25 Ditch 22 6 Yes 30
Chalmers-Fogg Ditch Popo Agie Headgates
Ditch
3 Yes
Chapman Canal Bear River Headgate 270 Canal 270 7 Yes10
Clark's Fork Irrigation







Cody Canal Irrigation South Fork Shoshone River
300 Ditch 800 70 Yes
Colorado Colony Ditch Little Goose Ditch 132 Ditch 132 10 Yes 20
Cook Canal







Cottonwood Irrigation Cottonwood Creek Screened Structure 68 Pipe 68 32 No 6
Crook County Irrigation







Crow Creek Canal







Davis & Company Ditch State Line Dam/Smiths Fork River Headgate, Parshall Flume 27 Ditch 53 10
0
Deaver Irrigation Buffalo Bill Dam Canal System, Open Channel 900 Ditch 350 320 Yes
Deeben & Heinz Ditch







Dempsey Canal







Douglas Water Users







Dry Creek Irrigation







Dutch Flat/Taylor







East Fork Canal







East Side Irrigation







Eden Valley Irr and Drainage







Elk Water Users Shoshone River Diversion Dam 350 Ditch 350 15 Yes
Elk-Lovell Irrigation







Enterprise Ditch







Etna Irrigation







Fairview Canal







Fairview Canal







Farmer's and Bench Diversion







Farmers Canal Greybull River, Roach Gulch In-stream 900 Ditch 400 80 Yes
Fayette Canal







First Mesa Canal Ditch Little Snake River Headgates 3,500 Ditch 3,500 13 Yes
Fremont Irrigation







Ft Bridger Canal







Gaylor and Warnock







Gibson-Blair Ditch







Globe Canal Irrigation Shoshone River Cement Headgates 84 Ditch, Pipe 84 13 Yes
Goshen Irrigation North Platte River Gravity Headgate 1,500 Canal 1,500 85 Yes 35
Goshen Mutual Water Users







Grant Young







Green River Irrigation







Grey Bluff Ditch







Greybull Valley Irrigation Wood River, Greybull River Concrete, Radial Gates 2,200 Ditch
29 Yes 0
Gunbarrel Ditch Wheatland Irrigation Dist Headgate 35 Pipe 35 5 No 5
Hams Fork Water Users







Hanover Irrigation Bighorn River Concrete Dam 700 Ditch 575 42 Yes 20
Heart Mountain Irrigation Shoshone River Headgate 900 Lined, Unlined Canal 900 228 Yes 38
Highland Hanover Irrigation Bighorn River Dam 700 Ditch 134 17 Yes 20
Highland Irrigation







Highline Ditch Irrigation







Hill Irrigation Glendo, Guernsey

Lined Ditch
7 No 6
Hilliard East Side Ditch
Headgate 30 Ditch 30 20 Yes
Hilliard West Side Ditch Bear River Cement Headgate 80 Ditch 80 18 Yes 0
Hoops Lake Reservoir Thompson Creek Valve 32 Ditch 60
Yes 10
Horse Creek Conservation







Hunt Canal Irrigation Shoshone River Coffer Dam 150 Ditch 150 13 No
Interstate Irrigation & Reservoir







Kidman & Wall Canal







Kirby Ditch Irrigation







Ladder Ditch







Lake DeSmet Reservoir







Lakeview Irrigation







Lamb Supply Canal







Lander Ditch Popo Agie, Dickinson Spring
16 Ditch 16 6 Yes
LaPrele Irrigation LaPrele Creek & Reservoir Concrete Abatement 165 Ditch 115 120 No
Laramie Valley Irrigation Oasis Ditch Direct Flow, Headgate 130 Ditch 130
No 0
Laramie Valley Municipal







Last Chance Ditch







LeClair Irrigation Big Wind River LeClair Headgate 450 Open Ditch 450 250 Yes 8
Lingle Water Users Pathfinder Headgate
Ditch 2,100 55 Yes17
Little Popo Agie Irrigation







Little Snake River Conservation







Lovell Irrigation







Lower Clear Creek Irrigation Lake Desmet Dam
Ditch 40
No
Lower Hanover Canal Bighorn River Concrete Dam 250 Ditch 230 24 No 15
Lucerne Canal and Power







Lucerne Irrigation







Lucerne Pumps







McDonald Ditch







Meade Creek Ditch Piney Creek Drop Gate 50 Ditch 37 9 Yes 25
Medicine Bow Conservation







Midvale Irrigation Reservoirs Diversion Dam 1,800 Canal, Ditch, Pipe 1,800 440 No 18
Milich Ditch Company







Mitchell Irrigation







New Fork Lake Irrigation Westfork New Fork Dam 417 Channel, Creek 838 28 Yes
New Grattan Ditch North Platte Headgates, Sluice Gates
Ditch 20 7 No 40
New North Platte Irrigation North Platte River Rock Dam 100 Combination 55 10 No 35
Nez Perce Irrigation
Headgates
Ditch
1 No
Nicol Table Mountain







North Fork Crazy Woman Irr







North Fork Valley Ditch Inc







Owl Creek Irrigation Owl Creek, Bighorn River Concrete, Earth 350 Creek, Ditch 420 73 No 25
Paradise Canal







Park Reservoir Irrigation







Parker McBride/N. Lateral Ditch







Pathfinder Irrigation







People's Canal Henrys Fork Creek Concrete, Steel Headgates 40 Canal 40 15

Peralta Ditch Little Goose & Cross Creek
34 Ditch 34 13 No 15
Pine Creek Ditch Pine Creek Rock Diversion 51 Ditch 75 7 Yes 0
Piney and Cruse Ditch Piney Creek Dam 70 Ditch 30 8 Yes
Pioneer Canal-Lake Hattie Irr Laramie River Headgates 800 Ditch 1,200 56 No 20
Pixley Canal







Porter Ditch







Porto Irrigation







Powder River Irrigation Sahara Ditch/Powder River Dam 160 Ditch 160 No 25
Prairie Dog Water Supply







Pratte-Ferris Irrigation







Riverton Valley Irrigation Stream Manual Gates 185 Ditch, Canal, Pipe 185 28 No 0
Rock Creek Ditch Rock Creek Concrete & Steel 1,680 Ditch 157 28 Yes 7
Rock Creek Water Users







Rock Ranch Ditch







Rodgers and Gregg (Wise Ditch) Little Popo Agie Headgate 35 Lined Ditch, Pipe 40 8 No 55
Salt River Irrigation Salt River Concrete Headgate
Ditch
5 No 0
Sandstone Ditch







Savery Creek Ditch Savery Creek Instream Mutual Diversion 70 Ditch 70 4 Yes
Savery-Little Snake River CD







Shell Valley Watershed ID Shell Creek Screw Headgate & Conduit 90 Creek 150 0
13
Shoshone Irrigation Shoshone River, Buffalo Bill Res Dam 900 Dirt Canal 900 260 Yes 14
Sidon Irrigation Shoshone River Dam 350 Ditch 350 108 No
Silver Lake Irrigation







Sixty-Seven Reservoir Project







Smith's Fork Irrigation Smiths Fork, Spring Cr, Brueuer Headgates 400 Ditch, Pipe 200 30 No 21
Snavely Ditch







Spring Draw Irrigation Little Goose & Big Horn Res Pipeline 9 Ditch 120 11 No 50
Strawberry Canal Strawberry Canal

Ditch
20 No 40
Sulphur Creek Reservoir Bear River & Sulphur Creek Control value, Evanston 500 Ditch
10 Yes 10
Sussex Irrigation







Sweetwater Irrigation







Taylor Ditch Popo Agie

Ditch
14 No
Tillard Canal







Toltec Watershed Improvement North Laramie River Divert from River 0
0 0 No 0
Torrington Irrigation
Dam
Ditch
12 No 8
Trowel Ditch Little Snake River Dam 8 Ditch 88 6 Yes
Twin Butte Canal Blacks Fork River Concrete Weir 45 Ditch 40 6 No 5
Twin Creek Ditch







Uinta NO 3 Canal







Upper Bluff Irrigation







Upper/Lower Hanover Canal







Victoria Ditch







West Cedar Creek Pipeline







West Side Canal West Side Canal, Little Snake River

Ditch
15 Yes
Whaley Ditch Shell Creek, Adelaide Res Concrete Dam
Ditch 25 3 Yes 0
Wheatland Irrigation Laramie River, Sybille Creek Lift Gates 700 Ditch 700 120 Yes 25
Willwood Irrigation Shoshone River Willwood Dam 500 Ditch
53

Wilson McNalley Ditch







Wilston McKissack Ditch







Wright & Murphy Ditch Glendo, Platte River GID Canal
Ditch 4 1 No
Wyoming Game and Fish Shoshone River Headgate
Ditch
12


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