Wyoming Water Development Commission
2005 Wyoming Irrigation Systems Report

Report #3: Usage and Storage

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

Entity # Acres # Acres Irrigated # of Users Others Who/Amount Storage (af) Storage Reservoir
Agrarian Irrigation Corporation       No 0    
Alliance Ditch Company Unknown   25 yes Alliance Lateral (occasional) n/a n/a
Alto Canal Sprinkler Co. 680.55 680.55 19 No 0 no storage Strawberry
Angel Draw Irrigation District       No 0    
Anita Ditch Company and Gapen Ditch 3000 2500 10 No   0 0
Baggs Ditch Company 903 903 5 No      
Baldwin/Peralta Ditch       No 0    
Bates Creek Reservoir Company no formal boundaries 4234 5 No   3112 Bates Creek Reservoir
Bear Canal Ditch Company 4900 4900 33 No 0 1102.5 Whitney
Beckwith Quin Canal Company 17000 17000 10 No 0 "10,200" Woodruff Narrows Reservoir
Bench Canal Company 16000 16000 52 No   134000 "Upper and Lower Sunshine, Roach Gulch"
Bertrom Ditch Company       No 0    
Big Cottonwood Ditch Corporation       No 0    
Big Goose and Beaver Ditch Company   6160 46 No 0 0 0
Big Horn Canal Irrigation District 13300 13300 260 No 0 13300 Boysen
Black's Fork Canal Company   20000 60 No     Meeks Cabin Dam
Blue Bell Canal Company   852 3 No 0    
Bluff Irrigation District 3762 3762 47 No     Boysen
Bluff/Upper Bluff 5173 5173 12 No 0   Boysen
Boulder Irrigation District 12155 10572 39 No 0 22280 Boulder Lake Reservoir
Bridger Butte       No 0    
Bridger Valley Water Conservancy District 154520 75000 226 Yes Bridger Valley Joint Powers Board "MCD - 32330, SLD - 13990" "Meeks Cabin Reservoir, Stateline Reservoir"
Burbank Ditch 400 300 1 No   200 Glendo
Burn-Cleuch Ditch Co 1000 750   No   n/a n/a
Butte Ditch unknown 2180 6 No None 1000 "Upper Flower Sunshine, Roach Gulch"
Cannon Land & Livestock 7000 1760 1 No 0    
Canyon Canal Inc. 6000   400 No 0 n/a n/a
Casper Alcova Irrigation District 24265 24265 500 No n/a "626,847" Seminoe
Castle Rock-Neff Ditch       No 0    
Cemetery Ditch 1400 1030 64 No 0    
Central Bedford Sprinkler Co.       No 0    
Chalmers-Fogg Ditch Company     25 Yes Irwin Ditch    
Chapman Canal Company   9240 15 No      
Clark's Fork Irrigation District       No 0    
Cody Canal Irrigation District   12000 1800 Yes City of Cody-12cfs 0  
Cook Canal Company       No 0    
Cottonwood Irrigation District 5165 5165 240 No 0 0 n/a
Crook County Irrigation District 4288 2161 18 No   "18,080" Keyhole Reservoir
Crow Creek Canal Company       No 0    
Dana Ditch or Sprinkler Group       No 0    
Davis & Company Ditch              
Deaver Irrigation 33990 14937.47 172 No 0 72736.5 Buffalo Bill
Deeben & Heinz Ditch Company       No 0    
Dempsey Canal Company       No 0    
Douglas Water Users       No 0    
Dry Creek Irrigation District       No 0    
Dutch Flat/Taylor 260 260 12 No 0    
East Fork Canal Company       No 0    
Eastside Irrigation District   1640 12 No      
Eden Valley Irrigation and Drainage District       No 0    
Elk Water Users Assoc   4243 21 Yes Lovell Irrigation District    
Elk-Lovell Irrigation District 15000 15736 265 No 0 100000 Buffalo Bill Reservoir
Enterprise Ditch Company 3660 3660 52 no 0 1700 Frye Lake
Enterprise Power and Irrigation Co. 4800 3600 45 No   1700 Frye Lake
Etna Irrigation District 5600     no 0    
Fairview Canal Company 3179 3719 25 No 0 1220 "Fairview Extension Res., Myron Res."
Fairview Irrigation District 2800 2500 80 No n/a n/a n/a
Farmers' and Bench Diversion       No 0    
Farmers' Canal Company 25000 22000 195 No 0   "Upper and Lower Sunshine, Roach Gulch"
Fayette Canal Association       No 0    
First Mesa Ditch Company 3196 3196 31 No      
Fremont Irrigation Company       No 0    
Ft Bridger Canal Company       No 0    
Gaylor and Warnock       No 0    
Gibson-Blair Ditch Company       No 0    
Globe Canal 3000 3000 50 No      
Goshen Hole Water Users Association   2515.9 5 No   2515.9 Springer
Goshen Irrigation District 52484 52484 400 Yes Gering-Fort-Laramie Irrigation District (51% of Diversions at 0.8)   Pathfinder and Guernsey
Goshen Mutual Reservoir and Ditch Co. 4500 641 9 No   1929  
Grand Teton Canal Company 8000 6000 58        
Grand Teton Pipeline Association       No 0    
Grant Young       No 0    
Gray Bluff Ditch Company       No 0    
Green River Irrigation District       No 0    
Greybull Valley Irrigation District   64000 400 No   140000 "Upper and Lower Sunshine Reservoir, Roach Gulch"
Gunbarrel Ditch Company 2600 2600 12 No 0   Wheatland Irrigation Dist
Gunbarrel Lateral Ditch Company 2900 2600 18 No      
Hams Fork Water Users Assoc       No 0    
Hanover Irrigation 13150 13150 200 Yes Bluff =120; Highland Hanover =134 7200af Boysen
Heart Mountain Irrigation District 45000 31130 500 No 0 330710 Buffalo Bill Reservoir
Highland Hanover Irrigation 6415 6415 50 No 0   Boysen
Highland Irrigation District       No 0    
Highline Ditch Irrigation District       No 0    
Hill Irrigation District   3844.59 79 No 0   "Glendo, Guernsey"
Hilliard East Fork Canal Company 3000 3000 17 No 0 1600 Whitney and Sulphur Creek
Hilliard West Side Ditch Company 2260 2260 22 No 0 508.5 Whitney
Hoops Lake Reservoir Company     10 No 0 4000 Hoops Lake
Horse Creek Conservation District 20000 10500 57 No   16500 Hawk Springs Reservoir
Hunt Canal Irrigation District 8398 4030 50 No      
Interstate Irrigation & Reservoir Company       No 0    
Kidman & Wall Canal Company       No 0    
Kirby Ditch Company 5210 3180 37 No   temporary contract as needed Boysen
Ladder Ditch Company 180 180 1 No 0    
Lake DeSmet Reservoir Company       No 0    
Lakeview Irrigation District       No 0    
Lamb Supply Canal Company unknown unknown   No      
Lander Ditch Company   650 150-200 No   None  
LaPrele Irrigation District   11462.2       20000 LaPrele Reservoir
Laramie Valley Irrigation District 8636 8636 15 Yes "Clint Loyd, 2.5cfs"    
Last Chance Ditch Company       No 0    
LeClair Irrigation District 13003 13003 1773 Yes "City of Riverton 10cfs, Riverton Country Club 5cfs, Mountain View Cemetary 2-3cfs" 14000 Boysen Reservoir
Lingle Water Users 11288 11288 96 No Pathfinder 2.5% of Pathfinder Pathfinder
Little Popo Agie Irrigation District 3000 2300 20 No   4000  
Little Snake River Conservation District       No 0    
Lovell Irrigation District 11000 11000 11000 Yes Elk Water users    
Lower Clear Creek Irrigation District     16 No 0 11800 Lake Desmet
Lower Hanover Canal 13516 12500 75 No 0    
Lucerne Canal and Power Company       No 0    
Lucerne Irrigation District       No 0    
Lucerne Pumps 4024 3900 89 No 0   Boysen
McDonald Ditch       No 0    
Meade Creek Ditch 2500 2600 6 No 0 1985 "Carneigne Lake, Willow Park Res."
Medicine Bow Conservation District       No 0    
Midvale Irrigation District 215000 73300 730 No   186551 Pilot and Bull Lake Reservoirs
Milich Ditch Company   4400 13 No     State line
New Fork Lake Irrigation District 14615.25 14615.25 76 No 0 20340 New Fork Lake
New Grattan Ditch Company 1320 1320 5 No 0 500 Glendo
New North Platte Irrigation Company 4200 2900 17 No 0 n/a n/a
Nez Perce Irrigation 120 109 25 No 0   Heart Mountain
Nicol Table Mountain       No 0    
Nield String Sprinkler Company       No 0    
North Fork Irrigation District 6000 2000 11 no 0   Muddy Guard 1&2
North Fork Valley Ditch Company Inc 1300 1074.43 54 No   825.15  
Owl Creek Irrigation District 13289 13089 130 No 0 18000 "Anchor Dam, Boysen Reservoir"
Paradise Canal Assoc       No 0    
Park Reservoir Irrigation District       No 0    
Parker McBride/North Lateral Ditch Co.       No 0    
People's Canal Company 2290.36 2290.36 14 No 0    
Peralta Ditch Company 3910 3910 18 No 0    
Pine Creek Ditch Association Inc. 3500 2972 33 No 0 3134 Fremont Lake Reservoir
Pine Hill Sprinkler Company       No 0    
Piney/Cruse Ditch Company   4800 82 No   237.5 Kearney Reservoir
Pioneer Canal-Lake Hattie Irrigation District 19000 17000 58 No 0 65000 Lake Hattie
Pixley Canal Company       No 0    
Porter Ditch       No 0    
Porto Irrigation District 900.6 900.6 24 No 0    
Powder River Irrigation District 25700 5116 23 No   none None
Prairie Dog Water Supply Company       No 0    
Pratte-Ferris Irrigation District       No 0    
Riverton Valley Irrigation District 13000 7825 610 Yes LeClair Irrigation Dist    
Rock Creek Ditch Company 8294 8214 7 No 0 3127 Pierce Reservoir
Rock Creek Water Users Assoc. 35000 30000   No   none none
Rock Ranch Ditch Company 3561 3561 22 No 0 unknown "Path Finder, Gurnsey Glendo"
Rodgers and Gregg (Wise Ditch) c 1000 20 Yes "Town of Hudson, 1cfs"   Christina
Salt River Irrigation District 2500 2300 50 No 0   none
Sandstone Ditch Company   2500 19 No   4846 "Upper and Lower Sunshine Reservoirs, Roach Gulch"
Savery Creek Ditch Company 2000 1274 10 No      
Savery-Little Snake River Water Conservancy District 12000 12000       12000 High Savery Dam
Shell Canal Company 10000 3700 120 No n/a "Shell 325, Adelaide 2250" "Shell Reservoir, Adelaide Reservoir"
Shell Valley Watershed Improvement District 15000 10500 250 No 0 4550 Adelaide
Shoshone Irrigation District 36009 35700 1036 Yes "Deaver Irr Dist, 270cfs" 330710 Buffal Bill Reservoir
Sidon Irrigation District 12800     No 0    
Silver Lake Irrigation District       No 0    
Sixty-Seven Reservoir Project       No 0    
Smith's Fork Irrigation District 16700 5200 23 No   n/a n/a
Snavely/Grant Young Ditch 1200 1200 25 No      
Spring Draw Irrigation 608 598 21 Yes "Subdivision, 12a" 441af Big Horn
Stewart Creek Pipeline       No 0    
Strawberry North Canal Company 3200 3200 60 No      
Strawberry South Canal Company       No 0    
Strawberry Upper Canal Company       No 0    
Sulphur Creek Reservoir   41000 54 No 0 7000 Sulphur Creek Reservoir
Sussex Irrigation Co.       No 0    
Taylor Ditch   2100 13 No 0 0  
Tillard Canal Company       No 0    
Toltec Watershed Improvement District 1754 1754 6 No 0 2945 Toltec Reservoir
Torrington Irrigation District   2249 110 No 0 4000 Glendo
Trowel Ditch Company     3 No 0    
Twin Butte Land and Irrigation Co.     12 No   owned by individual using water "Meeks cabin. Bureau of Rec,"
Twin Creek Ditch Company 1300 900 6 No      
Uinta NO 3 Canal Company       No 0    
Upper Bear River/Mill Creek Water Users Association   16000   No   4300 Whitney reservoir
Upper Bluff Irrigation District 1453 1453 32 No   Bureau Project Boysen
Upper/Lower Hanover Canal              
Victoria Ditch Co. 200 200   No      
Wagonhound Land & Livestock 7000 1760 1 No 0    
West Cedar Creek Pipeline Company       No 0    
West Side Canal Company 5217 5217 44 No      
Whaley Ditch 1442 1442 19 Yes "Howard Enl. of Whaley Ditch, 544 acres" only a conveyance Adelaide and Shell Reservoir
Wheatland Irrigation District 54000 54000 850 No 0 180000 "Wheatland Res #1, #2, #3"
Whitney Reservoir 16000     No 0 4300 Whitney Resevoir
Willwood Irrigation District 11595 11407 144 No 0   Buffalo Bill Reservoir
Wilson McNalley Ditch       No 0    
Wilston McKissack Ditch       No 0    
Wright & Murphy Ditch Company 245 245 1 No 0 300 Glendo
Wyoming Game and Fish Department   600 3 Yes Tipetts Ranch   none


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