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

EntityAssessmentWhat is the assessment ($)BudgetOther IncomeAmountFull Time EmployeesSeasonal EmployeesDebt PaymentDebt Retirement
Agrarian Irrigation Corporation
Alliance Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$10,000.001
Alto Canal Sprinkler CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$4,000.00No00
Angel Draw Irrigation District
Anita Ditch Company and Gapen DitchAnnual Assessment Per Acre$2,000.00No00
Baggs Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$2,500.00No000$1,958.062030
Baldwin/Peralta Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by SharesVariesNo00
Bates Creek Reservoir CompanyOtherNone$25.00No00
Bear Canal Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by SharesNo000
Beckwith Quin Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$7,500.00No000None
Bench Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$145,000.00No326,000.002008
Bertrom Ditch Company
Big Cottonwood Ditch Corporation
Big Goose and Beaver Ditch CompanyAnnual assesment by acres$7,000.00No01None
Big horn canal Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$12.50$210,430.00No3119,860.00
Black's Fork Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$10,000.00NoNonen/a
Blue Bell Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment by SharesNone
Bluff Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per AcreNo11
Boulder Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$24,700.00Yes157501$15,500.002006
Bridger Butte
Bridger Valley Water Conservancy DistrictPer acre foot annuallyYes30000270,000.002045
Burbank DitchOtherNoneNoneNo11
Burn Cleuch Ditch CoAnnual Assessment Per Acre$12.00VariesNo00
Butte DitchAnnual Assessment Per Acre$5,000.00No000None
Cannon Land & Livestock60
Canyon Canal Inc.Annual Assessment by Shares$23,900.002
Casper Alcova Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$400.00 for first Acre then $14.50 for every acre after$555,568.87No6
Castle Rock-Neff Ditch
Cemetery DitchAnnual Assessment Per Acre$7,700.00No002None
Central Bedford Sprinkler Co.
Chalmers-Fogg DitchAnnual Assessment by Shares$7.00 per share if the person attends the day set aside for ditch cleaning. Otherwise, it is $14.00 per share.No1
Chapman Canal CompnayDirect Billing$0.00No00
Clark's Fork Irrigation District
Cody Canal Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$18.00No40
Cook Canal Company
Cottonwood Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$63,000.00No000
Crook County Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment by Shares$16,000.00No0084,024.002025
Crow Creek Canal Company
Dana Ditch or Sprinkler Group
Davis & Company Ditch
Deaver Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$22.47$986,410.00Yes$57,000.00522,078,602.00USBR LOANS & ST WYO LOAN
Deeben & Heinz Ditch Company
Dempsey Canal Company
Douglas Water Users
Dry Creek Irrigation District
Dutch Flat/TaylorAnnual Assessment by Shares
East Fork Canal Company
Eastside Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$4.50$6,500.00No 01
Eden Valley Irrigation & Drainage DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$12.50$185,000.00No32494,148.232030
Elk Water Users Assoc.Annual Assessment by Shares$3.50No1
Elk-Lovell Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$135,000.00No01-3$21,000.00
Enterprise Irrigation and Power CO.Annual Assessment by Shares$24.00$24,000.00No0235,000.002012
Etna Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$30,000.00yes60001$5,680.002009
Fairview Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$3,000.00No002None
Fariview Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per AcreVariable$3,000.00No00
Farmer' Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$15,000.00No21
Farmers' and Bench Diversion
Fayette Canal Association
First Mesa Ditch CompanyAnnual assesments by shares$17,000.00No15,605.002030
Fremont Irrigation Company
Ft Bridger Canal Company
Gaylor and Warnock
Gibson-Blair Ditch Company
Globe Canal (Farmers Protective Assocn')Annual Assessment Per Acre$10 per acre; $30 per lot @ 2 acres or less$24,000.00No0114,000.002010
Gooseberry Irr DistAnnual AssessmentN/AN/ANo00
Goshen Hole Water Users AssociationAnnual Assessment Per AcreNo01n/a
Goshen Irrigation DistrictOther$19 per acre, $50 admin fee per account$1,048,684.00No181
Goshen Mutual Reservoir and Ditch Co.Annual Assessment Per Acre$6,410.00No1
Grand Teton Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$11,710.00No1None
Grand Teton Pipeline Association
Grant Young
Gray Bluff Ditch Company
Green River Irrigation District
Greybull Valley Irrigation District
Gunbarrel Lateral Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$2,250.00No1None
Hamsfork Water UsersOther$ 21 per cfs We vote as an organization as whether to have an assessment or not. Most years we do not have an assessment.$0.00No$0.0001
Hanover IrrigationAnnual Assessment Per Acre$131,500.00No01.50
Heart Mountain Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$21.00$900,000.00Yes$5,000.00962043
Highland Hanover IrrigationAnnual Assessment Per Acre$140,000.00No010
Highland Irrigation District
Highline Ditch Irrigation District
Hill Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$61,000.00No01None
Hilliard East Fork Canal CompanyBy Share Per Acre$3,500.00No000None
Hilliard West Side Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$175.00No00
Hoops Lake Reservoir CompanyAnnual Assessment by SharesNo000None
Horse Creek Conservation DistrictAnnual Assessment by Shares$250,000.00No22112,000.002030
Hunt Canal Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$7.50$30,500.00No01212,681.002035
Interstate Irrigation and Reservoir CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$3.00$19,047.00No0515,114.00
Kidman & Wall Canal Company
Killebrew Irrigation
Kirby Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$20,000.00No1
Ladder Ditch CompanyActual cost of O&M11
Lake DeSmet Reservoir Company
Lakeview Irrigation District
Lamb Supply Canal CompanyNoNone
Lander Ditch CompanyDues$1,000.00YesSCS Grants vary000
LaPrele Irrigation Districtannually per acre$139,614.00No020$44,168.742014, 2019
Laramie Valley Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$12,000.00No000None
Last Chance Ditch Company
LeClair Irrigation District
Lingle Water Users Assocn'Annual Assessment Per Acre$9.50$106,000.00No00
Little Popo Agie Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment by SharesYes1500001943
Little Snake River Conservation District
Lovell Irrigation Districtannual assesment by acres$100,000.00No220,000.00
Lower Clear Creek Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment by Shares$50,000.00No000$44,000.002015
Lower Hanover CanalAnnual Assessment Per Acre$80,000.00Yes500
Lucerene Pumping Plant Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$9.80$39,460.00No20
Lucerne Canal and Power Company
Lucerne Irrigation District
McDonald Ditch
Meade Creek DitchAnnual Assessment by Shares$5,400.00No010
Medicine Bow Conservation District
Midvale Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$350 for first acre as shown for each account maintained on the assessment roll for O&M, $15 for each acre thereafter for O&M. Approximately $2.00 per acre for construction repayment to the Bureau of Reclamation.$1,450,000.00Yes$100,000.001653,200,000.002021
Milich Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$3,500.00No1None
New North Platte Irrigation & Ditch Co.Annual Assessment by Shares$250.00$25,000 - $30,000No2
New Fork Lake Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$3,000.00No000None
New Grattan Ditch Co.Annual Assessment Per Acre$4.70$7,000.00No1
New North Platte Irrigation CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$13,000.00No011None
Nez Perce IrrigationBy Water UseNo000None
Nicol & Table Mountain DitchAnnual Assessment by Sharesvaries $1-$15$2,000.00No$0.0001
Nield String Sprinkler Company
North Fork Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$35,000.00no002$29,000.002014
North Fork Valley Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$4.00$10,000 - $12,000YesAnnual member dues00
North Strawberry Canal Co.Annual Assessment Per Acre$1,200.00No01
Owl Creek Irrigation DistrictOtherUpper & Middle Area 3.66/ft.; Lower Area 8.73/ft$79,000.00No326,750.002032
Paradise Canal Assoc
Park Reservoir Irrigation District
Parker McBride/North Lateral Ditch Co.
Peoples Canal CompanyAnnual Assessment by SharesVariable; Expected Cost/Total Shares$7,000.00No01
Peralta Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$3,900.00No000None
Pine Creek Ditch Association IncAnnual Assessment Per Acre$40 dues and per acre assesment$5000 - $15000No00
Pine Hill Sprinkler Company
Piney and Cruse Creek Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by Shares$12,000.00No02
Pioneer Canal-Lake Hattie Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment by Shares$91,678.00No002$43,033.002044
Pixley Canal Company
Porter Ditch
Porto Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$19,861.20No$18,690.89
Powder River Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment by Shares$28,133.00No00909,422.002039
Prairie Dog Water Supply Company
Pratte-Ferris Irrigation District
Riverton Valley Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$138,000.00No014$34,600.002046
Rock Creek Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$10,000.00No001None
Rock Creek Water Users Assn.Otheronly assessed as needed$500.00No00
Rock Ranch Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$33,000.001
Rodgers and Gregg (Wise Ditch)Annual Assessment Per Acre$10,000.00No000None
Salt River Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$1,500.00No002None
Sandstone Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$13,918.00No010
Savery Creek Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment Per Acre$100.00No003,900.002025
Savery-Little Snake River Water Conservancy DistrictAnnual assesments and mill levy$12,400.00Yes15000031,400.002030
Shell Canal CompanyAnnual Assesment Per Acre$44,400.00No12None
Shell Valley Watershed Improvement DistrictWater amount$35,000.00No0002040
Shoshone Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$17.10$1,400,000.00Yes$425,000.001342,380,000.002040
Sidon Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$145,000.00No022$45,000.002005
Silver Lake Irrigation District
Sixty-Seven Reservoir Project
Smith's Fork Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre
Snavely/Grant Young DitchPer acre, water volume$1,600.00No
Spring Draw IrrigationAnnual Assessment by Shares$12,000.00No001$10,630.002018
Stewart Creek IrrigationAnnual Assessment Per Acre$36 an acre for first 5 acres then $12 acre there after. example: 40 acres $36 X 5= $180 + 35 acres X $12 =$420; $420 + $180 = $600$14,000 - $15,000No1
Stewart Creek Pipeline
Strawberry South Canal Company
Strawberry Upper Canal Company
Sulphur Creek Reservoir CompanyOtherNone$700.00No00
Sussex Irrigation Co.
Taylor DitchAnnual Assessment by Shares$3,000.00No000None
Tillard canalAnnual Assessment by Shares$14.00$20,000.00No02
Toltec Watershed Improvment DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$10.00$17,480.00No00238,707.002024 & 2035
Torrington Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$25,000.00No001None
Trowel Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment by SharesNo0008,253.00
Twin Butte Land and Irrigation Co.annual assesment by shares$1500 - $2000No000None
Twin Creek Ditch Companyno annual assesment, costs are distributed depending on whether or not the ditch needs to be cleaned, several years since any assesment has been done$0.00No00None
Uinta NO 3 Canal Company
Upper Bear River/Mill Creek Water Users AssociationAssesment$10,000.00No
Upper Bluff Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$48,900.00No184,000.00
Upper/Lower Hanover Canal
Victoria Ditch Co.Percent of total acresVariesNo00
Wagonhound Land & Livestock60
West Cedar Creek Pipeline Company
West Side Canal Companyannual assesment$26,000.00No0024,070.002030
Whaley DitchAnnual Assessment Per Acre$3,600.00No000None
Wheatland Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$972,800.00Yes$80,000.00941,412,579.002029
Whitney ReservoirAnnual Assessment by Shares2
Willwood Irrigation DistrictAnnual Assessment Per Acre$25.00$308,952.00No32683,138.002039
Wilson McNalley Ditch
Wilston McKissack Ditch
Wise Ditch CompanyAnnual Assessment Per AcreAssessment varies. Assessments are determined by maintenance costs.$8,000.00No01
Wright & Murphy Ditch CompanyDirect Billing$300.00No000None
Wyoming Game and Fish Commission3


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