Wyoming Water Development Commission
2005 Wyoming Irrigation Systems Report

Report #4: Operations

Entities in red font did not respond to the current survey, most recent data given

Entity Assessment Unit Budget Other Income Amount Full Time Employees Seasonal Employees Debt Payment Debt Retirement Board of Directors
Agrarian Irrigation Corporation                  
Alliance Ditch Company By Shares 10000       1     Yes
Alto Canal Sprinkler Co. Per Acre 4000 No 0 0 0 None 2004 No
Angel Draw Irrigation District                  
Anita Ditch Company and Gapen Ditch per acre 2000 No   0 0 0   No
Baggs Ditch Company assesment by shares 2500 No 0 0 0 1958.06 2030 Yes
Baldwin/Peralta Ditch Per Acre 0              
Bates Creek Reservoir Company Shareholder assesment in proportion to number of shares when needed 0 No 0 0 0 None   "No, officers"
Bear Canal Ditch Company By Shares   No 0 0 0     Yes
Beckwith Quin Canal Company By Shares 7500 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Bench Canal Company per acre 128000 No   2       Yes
Bertrom Ditch Company                  
Big Cottonwood Ditch Corporation                  
Big Goose and Beaver Ditch Company Annual assesment by acres 7000 No   0 1 None   Yes
Big Horn Canal Irrigation District Per Acre 220000 No 0 3 0 17000 2010 "No, commissioners"
Black's Fork Canal Company Per Share 10000 No       None n/a Yes
Blue Bell Canal Company By Shares           None   Yes
Bluff Irrigation District Per Acre 52000 No 0 1 0 9282 ?  
Boulder Irrigation District Per Acre 24700 Yes 1575 0 1 15500 2006 Yes
Bridger Butte                  
Bridger Valley Water Conservancy District Per acre foot annually   Yes 30000 2   70000 2045 Yes
Burbank Ditch Pumping expense 14000     0   None n/a Yes
Burn-Cleuch Ditch Co Per Acre 3000 No     1 None   Yes
Butte Ditch Per Acre 5000 No 0 0 0 None   No
Cannon Land & Livestock         6 0      
Canyon Canal Inc. By Shares 23900       2     Yes
Casper Alcova Irrigation District Per Acre 800000 Yes 396500 6 4 None n/a Yes
Castle Rock-Neff Ditch                  
Cemetery Ditch Per Acre 7700 No 0 0 2 None   Yes
Central Bedford Sprinkler Co.                  
Chalmers-Fogg Ditch Company By Shares 700 No   0 1 0 n/a Yes
Chapman Canal Company Per cfs n/a No 0 0 0 None   No
Clark's Fork Irrigation District                  
Cody Canal Irrigation District Per acre 280000 No 0 4 0 30000 2009 Yes
Cook Canal Company                  
Cottonwood Irrigation District Per Acre 63000 No 0 0 0     Yes
Crook County Irrigation District annual assesment by acre 20000 No     2 4668 2025 Yes
Crow Creek Canal Company                  
Dana Ditch or Sprinkler Group                  
Davis & Company Ditch                  
Deaver Irrigation Per Acre 340541 Yes 88845 5 2 47510 2100 Yes
Deeben & Heinz Ditch Company                  
Dempsey Canal Company                  
Douglas Water Users                  
Dry Creek Irrigation District                  
Dutch Flat/Taylor By Shares                
East Fork Canal Company                  
Eastside Irrigation District Annual per acre 6000 No 0 0 0 None    
Eden Valley Irrigation and Drainage District                  
Elk Water Users Assoc Annual assessment per share 15000 No 0 0 0 None n/a Yes
Elk-Lovell Irrigation District Per Acre 135000 No 0   1-3 21000   Yes
Enterprise Ditch Company By Shares 12000       2     Yes
Enterprise Power and Irrigation Co. Annual Assesment by Shares 15000 No   0 0 3000 2007 Yes
Etna Irrigation District Per Acre 30000 yes 6000   1 5680 2009 Yes
Fairview Canal Company By Shares 3000 No 0 0 2 0   Yes
Fairview Irrigation District annual assesment per acre amount to cover expenses 2500 No n/a 0 0 None n/a Yes
Farmers' and Bench Diversion                  
Farmers' Canal Company By Shares 144000 No 0 1 1 0 0 Yes
Fayette Canal Association                  
First Mesa Ditch Company Annual assesments by shares 17000 No     1 5605 2030 Yes
Fremont Irrigation Company                  
Ft Bridger Canal Company                  
Gaylor and Warnock                  
Gibson-Blair Ditch Company                  
Globe Canal Per Acre 18000     0 1 10000   Yes
Goshen Hole Water Users Association Per Acre   No   0 1 0 n/a Yes
Goshen Irrigation District Per Acre 970954 No   20 2 None   Yes
Goshen Mutual Reservoir and Ditch Co. Per Acre 6410 No     1      
Grand Teton Canal Company By shares 11710 No     1 None   Yes
Grand Teton Pipeline Association                  
Grant Young                  
Gray Bluff Ditch Company                  
Green River Irrigation District                  
Greybull Valley Irrigation District Annual assesment per Acre 400000 Yes 600 3     2050 Yes
Gunbarrel Ditch Company By Shares 3500 No 0 0 1 None   No
Gunbarrel Lateral Ditch Company Per Shares 2250 No     1 None   No
Hams Fork Water Users Assoc                  
Hanover Irrigation Per Acre 131500 No 0 1.5 0     Yes
Heart Mountain Irrigation District Per Acre 900000 Yes 5000 10 6 135000 2043 Yes
Highland Hanover Irrigation Per Acre 140000 No 0 1 0     Yes
Highland Irrigation District                  
Highline Ditch Irrigation District                  
Hill Irrigation District Per Acre 61000 No 0 1   None   Yes
Hilliard East Fork Canal Company By Share Per Acre 3500 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Hilliard West Side Ditch Company By Shares       0 0     Yes
Hoops Lake Reservoir Company By share   No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Horse Creek Conservation District Per share 234150 No   3   Yes 2024 Yes
Hunt Canal Irrigation District Per Acre 30517 No 0 0 1 14896 2035 Yes
Interstate Irrigation & Reservoir Company                  
Kidman & Wall Canal Company                  
Kirby Ditch Company Annual assessment by shares 20000 No     1     Yes
Ladder Ditch Company Actual cost of O&M       1 1      
Lake DeSmet Reservoir Company                  
Lakeview Irrigation District                  
Lamb Supply Canal Company     No       None   Yes
Lander Ditch Company varies per user 900 No 0 0 0 None   No
LaPrele Irrigation District annually per acre 139614 No 0 2 0 44168.74 "2014, 2019" yes
Laramie Valley Irrigation District Per Acre 12000 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Last Chance Ditch Company                  
LeClair Irrigation District Per Acre 225000 No 0 1 3 14200 2015 Yes
Lingle Water Users "Annual, by share" 100000 No 0 1 0 None   Yes
Little Popo Agie Irrigation District by shares   Yes 1500 0 0 0 1943 Yes
Little Snake River Conservation District                  
Lovell Irrigation District annual assesment by acres 100000 No     2 20000   Yes
Lower Clear Creek Irrigation District By Shares 50000 No 0 0 0 44000 2015 Yes
Lower Hanover Canal Per Acre 80000 Yes 500         Yes
Lucerne Canal and Power Company                  
Lucerne Irrigation District                  
Lucerne Pumps Per Acre 39000     1       Yes
McDonald Ditch                  
Meade Creek Ditch By Shares 5400 No 0 1 0     Yes
Medicine Bow Conservation District                  
Midvale Irrigation District Annual assesment by irrigable acreage 1459220 Yes 200000 18 5 83000 2021 Yes
Milich Ditch Company Annual assessment by shares 3500 No     1 None   Yes
New Fork Lake Irrigation District Per Acre 3000 No 0 0 0 None   District Commissioner
New Grattan Ditch Company Per Acre 10650 No 0 0 1 None   Yes
New North Platte Irrigation Company By Shares 13000 No 0 1 1 None   Yes
Nez Perce Irrigation By Water Use   No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Nicol Table Mountain                  
Nield String Sprinkler Company                  
North Fork Irrigation District Per Acre 35000 no 0 0 2 29000 2014 Yes
North Fork Valley Ditch Company Inc Base fee plus per acre   No   0 1     Yes
Owl Creek Irrigation District Per Acre 60000 No 0 2.5 0 6750 2032 Yes
Paradise Canal Assoc                  
Park Reservoir Irrigation District                  
Parker McBride/North Lateral Ditch Co.                  
People's Canal Company By Shares 7500 No 0   1     Yes
Peralta Ditch Company By Shares 3900 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Pine Creek Ditch Association Inc. Annual assesment by acre plus dues 10000 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Pine Hill Sprinkler Company                  
Piney/Cruse Ditch Company By Shares 10000 No 0 1 1 None   Yes
Pioneer Canal-Lake Hattie Irrigation District By Shares 91678 No 0 0 2 43033 2044 Yes
Pixley Canal Company                  
Porter Ditch                  
Porto Irrigation District Per Acre 19861.2 No       18690.89   Yes
Powder River Irrigation District Shares per acre 28137 No 0 0 0 22735   Yes
Prairie Dog Water Supply Company                  
Pratte-Ferris Irrigation District                  
Riverton Valley Irrigation District Per Acre 138000 No 0 1 4 34600 2046 Yes
Rock Creek Ditch Company Per Acre 10000 No 0 0 1 None   Yes
Rock Creek Water Users Assoc. Per Acre as needed 1000 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Rock Ranch Ditch Company Per Acre 33000       1     Yes
Rodgers and Gregg (Wise Ditch) Per Acre 10000 No 0 0 0 No   Yes
Salt River Irrigation District Per Acre 1500 No 0 0 2 None   Yes
Sandstone Ditch Company "Annual assesment per acre, varies by year" "seven dollars per acre, varies" No     1     Yes
Savery Creek Ditch Company Annual by shares/per acre 100 No   0 0 3900 2025 Yes
Savery-Little Snake River Water Conservancy District Annual assesments and mill levy 12400 Yes 1500 0 0 31400 2030 Yes
Shell Canal Company Annual Assesment Per Acre 44400 No   1 2 None   Yes
Shell Valley Watershed Improvement District Water amount 35000 No 0 0 0   2040 Yes
Shoshone Irrigation District Annual Assesment Per Acre 1200000 Yes 425000 12 8 198730 2040 "No, commissioners"
Sidon Irrigation District Per Acre 145000 No 0 2 2 45000 2005 Yes
Silver Lake Irrigation District                  
Sixty-Seven Reservoir Project                  
Smith's Fork Irrigation District Per Acre 22750 No 0 0 0 8250 2028 No
Snavely/Grant Young Ditch "Per acre, water volume" 1600 No           No
Spring Draw Irrigation By Shares 12000 No 0 0 1 10630 2018 Yes
Stewart Creek Pipeline                  
Strawberry North Canal Company assesment per acre 1000 No 0 1 0 None   Yes
Strawberry South Canal Company                  
Strawberry Upper Canal Company                  
Sulphur Creek Reservoir None 5000 None   1 0     Yes
Sussex Irrigation Co.                  
Taylor Ditch By Shares 3000 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Tillard Canal Company                  
Toltec Watershed Improvement District Per Acre 17540 No 0 0 0 16500 2035 Yes
Torrington Irrigation District Per Acre 25000 No 0 0 1 No   Yes
Trowel Ditch Company By shares   No 0 0 0 8253   No
Twin Butte Land and Irrigation Co. annual assesment by shares 1500-2000 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Twin Creek Ditch Company "no annual assesment, costs are distributed depending on whether or not the ditch needs to be cleaned, several years since any assesment has been done" 0 No   0 0 None   No
Uinta NO 3 Canal Company                  
Upper Bear River/Mill Creek Water Users Association Assesment 10000 No           Yes
Upper Bluff Irrigation District Annual assesment per acre 31000 No   1   14000 varies  
Upper/Lower Hanover Canal                  
Victoria Ditch Co. Percent of total acres varies No   none none none   No
Wagonhound Land & Livestock         6 0     No
West Cedar Creek Pipeline Company                  
West Side Canal Company annual assesment 26000 No 0 0 2 4070 2030 Yes
Whaley Ditch Annual by acres 3600 No 0 0 0 None   Yes
Wheatland Irrigation District Per Acre 800000 Yes 95200 9 1 100000 2029 Yes
Whitney Reservoir By Shares         2     Yes
Willwood Irrigation District Per Acre 371250.24 No 0 3 0 22781.25 2039 Yes
Wilson McNalley Ditch                  
Wilston McKissack Ditch                  
Wright & Murphy Ditch Company Direct Billing 300 No 0 0 0 None   No
Wyoming Game and Fish Department None   No 0 1 2     GF Commissioners
                 


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