Wyoming Water Development Commission
2001 Irrigation System Survey Report
Report #5: General Information

Entity Conservation Habitat Problems
Agrarian Irrigation


Alliance Ditch


Alto Canal Sprinkler No Yes beaver dams, upkeep
Angel Draw Irrigation


Anita Ditch


Baggs Ditch No Yes water supply
Baldwin Ditch


Bates Creek Reservoir No Yes lack of water
Bear Canal Ditch Yes Yes improvements, inadequate water source, state and federal requirements, legal problems, subdivided land, water rights, assessments, unwritten easements, maintenance through subdivisions
Bench Canal


Bertrom Ditch


Big Cottonwood Ditch


Big Goose and Beaver Ditch
Yes improvements, maintenance, subdivisions
Big Horn Canal Irrigation Yes

Black's Fork Canal Yes Yes future repairs
Blue Bell Canal
No none
Bluff/Upper Bluff No Yes contract negotiation, power
Boulder Irrigation Yes Yes maintenance, subdivisions
BQ Canal
Yes wildlife refuge
Bridger Valley Water Conservancy


Burbank Ditch Yes Yes state and federal requirements
Burn-Cleuch Ditch No Yes water loss, dam, repairs, improvements needed
Butte Ditch Yes Yes maintenance, flood damage, inadequate amount of water
Cannon L & L
Yes
Canyon Canal


Casper Alcova Irrigation Yes Yes leaky ditches
Castle Rock-Neff


Cemetary Ditch Yes Yes maintenance, subsidence, seepage, sediment, repairs
Chalmers-Fogg Ditch No Yes subdivisions, seepage
Chapman Canal Yes Yes maintenance, subdivision, easements
Clark's Fork Irrigation


Cody Canal Irrigation No Yes age of system, subdivisions
Colorado Colony Ditch Yes Yes weeds, regulations
Cook Canal


Cottonwood Irrigation Yes Yes subdivision development
Crook County Irrigation


Crow Creek Canal


Davis & Company Ditch
Yes repairs
Deaver Irrigation Yes Yes more water, education, legal issues, aging flumes, seepage, litigation, repairs
Deeben & Heinz Ditch


Dempsey Canal


Douglas Water Users


Dry Creek Irrigation


Dutch Flat/Taylor


East Fork Canal


East Side Irrigation


Eden Valley Irrigation and Drainage


Elk Water Users Yes Yes
Elk-Lovell Irrigation


Enterprise Ditch


Etna Irrigation


Fairview Canal


Fairview Canal


Farmer's and Bench Diversion


Farmers Canal No Yes canal improvements, county problems, facilities and equipment, water conservation
Fayette Canal


First Mesa Canal Ditch Yes Yes unwritten easements
Fremont Irrigation


Ft Bridger Canal


Gaylor and Warnock

canal improvements, county problems, facilities and equipment, water conservation
Gibson-Blair Ditch

funding
Globe Canal Irrigation Yes Yes Funding
Goshen Irrigation Yes No state & federal requirements, subdivided land, seepage, lack of adequate water measurement, system age
Goshen Mutual Water Users


Grant Young


Green River Irrigation


Grey Bluff Ditch


Greybull Valley Irrigation Yes Yes repairs
Gunbarrel Ditch Yes No
Hams Fork Water Users


Hanover Irrigation No Yes federal requirements, flood water, pump water, subdivisions
Heart Mountain Irrigation Yes Yes subdivisions, maintainence
Highland Hanover Irrigation Yes Yes contract negotioation
Highland Irrigation


Highline Ditch Irrigation


Hill Irrigation District Yes Yes none
Hilliard East Side Ditch


Hilliard West Side Ditch Yes Yes needed improvements, inadequate water source, state ans federal requirements, unwritten easements, mainteinance through subdivisions, legal problems, subdivided land, water rights, assessments
Hoops Lake Reservoir
Yes inadequate water supply
Horse Creek Conservation


Hunt Canal Irrigation Yes

Interstate Irrigation & Reservoir


Kidman & Wall Canal


Kirby Ditch Irrigation


Ladder Ditch


Lake DeSmet Reservoir


Lakeview Irrigation


Lamb Supply Canal


Lander Ditch Yes Yes
LaPrele Irrigation Yes
ditch improvements, dam maintainence, vandalism
Laramie Valley Irrigation Yes Yes flumes, need headgates, rip rap, concrete, repairs
Laramie Valley Municipal


Last Chance Ditch


LeClair Irrigation Yes Yes up stream water storage
Lingle Water Users Yes Yes federal government
Little Popo Agie Irrigation


Little Snake River Conservation


Lovell Irrigation


Lower Clear Creek Irrigation No Yes assessment collection, maintainance
Lower Hanover Canal No Yes structural improvements, flood water
Lucerne Canal and Power


Lucerne Irrigation


Lucerne Pumps


McDonald Ditch


Meade Creek Ditch No Yes
Medicine Bow Conservation


Midvale Irrigation Yes Yes need pressurized pipeline, litigation, repairs, inspections, equip. upgrades
Milich Ditch


Mitchell Irrigation


New Fork Lake Irrigation Yes Yes public access to dam, subdivisions
New Grattan Ditch No No
New North Platte Irrigation Yes No diversion fom river during flows less than 500cfs
Nez Perce Irrigation Yes No
Nicol Table Mountain


North Fork Crazy Woman Irrigation


North Fork Valley Ditch Inc


Owl Creek Irrigation Yes Yes storage, sink holes
Paradise Canal


Park Reservoir Irrigation


Parker McBride/North Lateral Ditch


Pathfinder Irrigation


People's Canal


Peralta Ditch Yes Yes brush removal, subdivisions
Pine Creek Ditch No Yes subdivisions
Piney and Cruse Ditch Yes
natural flow, maintenance, subdivisions, improvements
Pioneer Canal-Lake Hattie Irrigation Yes Yes limited storage, limitations imposed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Pixley Canal


Porter Ditch


Porto Irrigation


Powder River Irrigation No Yes inadequate water source
Prairie Dog Water Supply


Pratte-Ferris Irrigation


Riverton Valley Irrigation Yes No water loss
Rock Creek Ditch Yes Yes easements, not getting allocated water, litigation
Rock Creek Water Users


Rock Ranch Ditch


Rodgers and Gregg (Wise Ditch) Yes Yes water loss, maintenance, subdivisions
Salt River Irrigation No No needed improvement, inadequate water sources, no storage
Sandstone Ditch


Savery Creek Ditch Yes Yes
Savery-Little Snake River CD


Shell Valley Watershed ID No Yes
Shoshone Irrigation Yes Yes system capacity, repairs, water rights, subdivisions
Sidon Irrigation Yes No repairs
Silver Lake Irrigation


Sixty-Seven Reservoir Project


Smith's Fork Irrigation Yes Yes assessments, needed imrpovements--individual headgates
Snavely Ditch


Spring Draw Irrigation Yes Yes measuring & screening systems, adequate water supply, litigation
Strawberry Canal
Yes improvements, assessments, federal requirements, water loss
Sulphur Creek Reservoir Yes Yes provides water for 60 water users and the city of Evanston
Sussex Irrigation


Sweetwater Irrigation


Taylor Ditch Yes Yes slide area above ditch
Tillard Canal


Toltec Watershed Improvement Yes Yes
Torrington Irrigation

needed improvements, maintenance through subdivisions
Trowel Ditch Yes Yes lack of late season water, silt build up, weeds, beaver damage
Twin Butte Canal Yes No ditch maintenance, subdivsions
Twin Creek Ditch


Uinta NO 3 Canal


Upper Bluff Irrigation


Upper/Lower Hanover Canal


Victoria Ditch


West Cedar Creek Pipeline


West Side Canal No Yes seepage, repairs
Whaley Ditch Yes Yes unwritten easements, return flow, erosion
Wheatland Irrigation Yes Yes
Willwood Irrigation


Wilson McNalley Ditch


Wilston McKissack Ditch


Wright & Murphy Ditch Yes Yes
Wyoming Game and Fish Yes Yes tunnel capacity & age, funding


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