Wyoming Water Development Commission
2008 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 Users Others Who/amount Name of Reservoir Amount of Storage (af)
Agrarian Irrigation Corporation No
Alliance Ditch Company Unknown 25 yes Alliance Lateral (occasional) n/a n/a
Alto Canal Sprinkler Company 680 680 No 0
Angel Draw Irrigation District No
Anita Ditch Company and Gapen Ditch 3000 2500 10 No 0 0
Baggs Ditch Company 903 903 5 No
Baldwin/Peralta Ditch Company 600 7 No N/A 0
Bates Creek Reservoir Company 5 No Bates Creek Reservoir 3112
Bear Canal Ditch Company 4900 4900 33 No Whitney 1102.5
Beckwith Quin Canal Company 17000 17000 10 No Woodruff Narrows Reservoir 10,200
Bench Canal Company 16000 16000 72 No Upper & Lower Sunshine, Roach Gulch 36000
Bertrom Ditch Company No
Big Cottonwood Ditch Corporation No
Big Goose and Beaver Ditch Company 6160 46 No 0 0
Big Horn Canal Irrigation District 23875 23875 359 No Boysen 330
Black's Fork Canal Company 20000 60 No Meeks Cabin Dam
Blue Bell Canal Company 852 3 No
Bluff Irrigation District 3762 3762 47 Boysen
Boulder Irrigation District 12155 10572 39 No Boulder Lake Reservoir 22280
Bridger Butte No
Bridger Valley Water Conservancy District 154520 75000 226 Yes Bridger Valley Joint Powers Board Meeks Cabin Reservoir, Stateline Reservoir MCD - 32330, SLD - 13990
Burbank Ditch 500 500 2 No Glendo 200
Burn Cleuch Ditch Co 907 907 62 No N/A
Butte Ditch unknown 2180 6 No None Upper Flower Sunshine, Roach Gulch 1000
Cannon Land & Livestock 7000 1760 1 No
Canyon Canal Inc. 6000 400 No n/a n/a
Casper Alcova Irrigation District 24246 24246 511 No Semino, Alcova 1017273
Castle Rock-Neff Ditch No
Cemetery Ditch 1400 1030 64 No
Central Bedford Sprinkler Co. No
Chalmers-Fogg Ditch 32 Yes Irwin Ditch
Chapman Canal Compnay 9300 20 No N/A 0
Clark's Fork Irrigation District No
Cody Canal Irrigation District 12000 12000 1800 No
Cook Canal Company No
Cottonwood Irrigation District 5165 5165 240 No n/a 0
Crook County Irrigation District 4287 2160 No Keyhole Reservoir 17708
Crow Creek Canal Company No
Dana Ditch or Sprinkler Group No
Davis & Company Ditch
Deaver Irrigation District 69000 15550 273 Yes Town of Deaver 475 acre-ft Buffalo Bill Reservoir - Deaver Reservoir - Blue Lake
Deeben & Heinz Ditch Company No
Dempsey Canal Company No
Douglas Water Users No
Dry Creek Irrigation District No
Dutch Flat/Taylor 260 260 12 No
East Fork Canal Company No
Eastside Irrigation District 1645 1300 15 No N/A 0
Eden Valley Irrigation & Drainage District 95653 16850 123 No Big Sandy Reservoir 39,700 ac ft; 17,000 supplemental
Elk Water Users Assoc. Yes Lowell Irrigation District N/A 0
Elk-Lovell Irrigation District 15000 15736 265 No Buffalo Bill Reservoir 100000
Enterprise Irrigation and Power CO. 3600 3600 85 No Frye Lake 1700
Etna Irrigation District 5600 no
Fairview Canal Company 3179 3719 25 No Fairview Extension Res., Myron Res. 1220
Fariview Irrigation District 2300 2000 95 No N/A 0
Farmer' Canal Company 25000 22000 195 No Upper & Lower Sunshine, Roach Gulch
Farmers' and Bench Diversion No
Fayette Canal Association No
First Mesa Ditch Company 3196 3196 31 No
Fremont Irrigation Company No
Ft Bridger Canal Company No
Gaylor and Warnock No
Gibson-Blair Ditch Company No
Globe Canal (Farmers Protective Assocn') 3000 3000 50 No Buffalo Bill Reservoir
Gooseberry Irr Dist 2000 2000 20 No 0
Goshen Hole Water Users Association 2515.9 5 No Springer 2515.9
Goshen Irrigation District 52484 52484 420 No Pathfinder Whatever is avaliable
Goshen Mutual Reservoir and Ditch Co. 4500 641 9 No 1929
Grand Teton Canal Company 8000 6000 58
Grand Teton Pipeline Association No
Grant Young No
Gray Bluff Ditch Company No
Green River Irrigation District No
Greybull Valley Irrigation District Upper Sunshine,Lower Sunshine, Greybull Valley Dam & Reservoir 140000
Gunbarrel Lateral Ditch Company 2900 2600 18 No
Hamsfork Water Users 0 0 25 Yes outside industry and Naughton Power Plant (reservoir is owned by power plant) Viva Naughton Reservoir 0
Hanover Irrigation 13150 13150 200 Yes Bluff =120; Highland Hanover =134 Boysen 7200af
Heart Mountain Irrigation District 45000 31130 578 No Buffalo Bill Reservoir 330710
Highland Hanover Irrigation 6415 6415 50 No Boysen
Highland Irrigation District No
Highline Ditch Irrigation District No
Hill Irrigation District 3844.59 79 No Glendo, Guernsey
Hilliard East Fork Canal Company 3000 3000 17 No Whitney and Sulphur Creek 1600
Hilliard West Side Ditch Company 2260 18 No Whitney 17000
Hoops Lake Reservoir Company 10 No Hoops Lake 4000
Horse Creek Conservation District 10501 10501 60 No Hawk Springs Reservoir 16735
Hunt Canal Irrigation District 8398 4030 50 No
Interstate Irrigation and Reservoir Company 1946 21 No Beaver Meadow, and Island Lake 2150
Kidman & Wall Canal Company No
Killebrew Irrigation
Kirby Ditch Company 5210 3180 37 No Boysen temporary contract as needed
Ladder Ditch Company 180 180 1 No
Lake DeSmet Reservoir Company No
Lakeview Irrigation District No
Lamb Supply Canal Company unknown unknown No
Lander Ditch Company 1800 120 No
LaPrele Irrigation District 11462.2 LaPrele Reservoir 20000
Laramie Valley Irrigation District 8636 8636 15 Yes Clint Loyd, 2.5cfs
Last Chance Ditch Company No
LeClair Irrigation District 25909 55454.79 Boysen 14000
Lingle Water Users Assocn' 11288 11288 100 Yes Pathfinder Hill Pathfinder 5.57%
Little Popo Agie Irrigation District 3000 2300 20 No 4000
Little Snake River Conservation District No
Lovell Irrigation District 11000 11000 11000 Yes Elk Water users
Lower Clear Creek Irrigation District 16 No Lake Desmet 11800
Lower Hanover Canal 13516 12500 75 No
Lucerene Pumping Plant Canal Company 4028 94 No Boysen Reservoir 12000
Lucerne Canal and Power Company No
Lucerne Irrigation District No
McDonald Ditch No
Meade Creek Ditch 2500 2600 6 No Carneigne Lake, Willow Park Res. 1985
Medicine Bow Conservation District No
Midvale Irrigation District 250000 73000 750 No Bull Lake and Pilot Butte Reservoirs 184,000 acre-feet
Milich Ditch Company 4400 13 No State line
New North Platte Irrigation & Ditch Co. 4000 3000 18 No N/A 0
New Fork Lake Irrigation District 14615.25 14615.25 76 No New Fork Lake 20340
New Grattan Ditch Co. 1323 930 5 No Glendo Reservoir 900
New North Platte Irrigation Company 4200 2900 17 No n/a n/a
Nez Perce Irrigation 120 109 25 No Heart Mountain
Nicol & Table Mountain Ditch 4000 3340 36 No 0
Nield String Sprinkler Company No
North Fork Irrigation District 6000 2000 11 no Muddy Guard 1&2
North Fork Valley Ditch Company 1050 1050 70 No Buffalo Bill Reservoir (Diversion before res) 1000
North Strawberry Canal Co. 1200 N/A
Owl Creek Irrigation District 28800 15500 133 No Anchchor Dam, Boysen Reservoir 6000
Paradise Canal Assoc No
Park Reservoir Irrigation District No
Parker McBride/North Lateral Ditch Co. No
Peoples Canal Company 2290 2290 15 No N/A None
Peralta Ditch Company 3910 3910 18 No
Pine Creek Ditch Association Inc 3500 3200 33 No Fremont Lake Reservoir 3237
Pine Hill Sprinkler Company No
Piney and Cruse Creek Ditch Company 9000 4798 87 Yes Dalton Ditch, Story Water Users, Robertson and Zulling Kearney Reservoir 237
Pioneer Canal-Lake Hattie Irrigation District 19000 17000 58 No Lake Hattie 65000
Pixley Canal Company No
Porter Ditch No
Porto Irrigation District 900.6 900.6 24 No
Powder River Irrigation District 15720 5115 25 No N/A 0
Prairie Dog Water Supply Company No
Pratte-Ferris Irrigation District No
Riverton Valley Irrigation District 13000 7825 610 Yes LeClair Irrigation Dist
Rock Creek Ditch Company 8294 8214 7 No Pierce Reservoir 3127
Rock Creek Water Users Assn. 25000 16 No King, Sand Lake & Pierce 5590`
Rock Ranch Ditch Company 3561 3561 22 No Path Finder, Gurnsey Glendo unknown
Rodgers and Gregg (Wise Ditch) 1000 20 Yes Town of Hudson, 1cfs Christina
Salt River Irrigation District 2500 2300 50 No none
Sandstone Ditch Company 4000 2556 16 No Upper & Lower Sunshine, Roach Gulch 4168
Savery Creek Ditch Company 2000 1274 10 No
Savery-Little Snake River Water Conservancy District 12000 12000 High Savery Dam 12000
Shell Canal Company 10000 3700 120 No n/a Shell Reservoir, Adelaide Reservoir Shell 325, Adelaide 2250
Shell Valley Watershed Improvement District 15000 10500 250 No Adelaide 4550
Shoshone Irrigation District 36009 35500 1135 Yes Deaver Irrigation District (270 cfs) Buffalo Bill 330,710 (Shoshone Project)
Sidon Irrigation District 12800 No
Silver Lake Irrigation District No
Sixty-Seven Reservoir Project No
Smith's Fork Irrigation District 4961 28 No
Snavely/Grant Young Ditch 1200 1200 25 No
Spring Draw Irrigation 608 598 21 Yes Subdivision, 12a Big Horn 441af
Stewart Creek Irrigation 1050 1050 28 No NA N/A 0
Stewart Creek Pipeline No
Strawberry South Canal Company No
Strawberry Upper Canal Company No
Sulphur Creek Reservoir Company 5000 58 No Sulphur Creek Reservoir 7116
Sussex Irrigation Co. No
Taylor Ditch 2100 13 No 0
Tillard canal 1400 1400 12 No N/A 0
Toltec Watershed Improvment District 1748 1748 6 No Toltec 2945
Torrington Irrigation District 2249 110 No Glendo 4000
Trowel Ditch Company 3 No
Twin Butte Land and Irrigation Co. 12 No Meeks cabin. Bureau of Rec, owned by individual using water
Twin Creek Ditch Company 1300 900 6 No
Uinta NO 3 Canal Company No
Upper Bear River/Mill Creek Water Users Association 16000 No Whitney reservoir 4300
Upper Bluff Irrigation District 5173 5173 12 No Boysen
Upper/Lower Hanover Canal
Victoria Ditch Co. 200 200 No
Wagonhound Land & Livestock 7000 1760 1 No
West Cedar Creek Pipeline Company No
West Side Canal Company 5217 5217 44 No
Whaley Ditch 1442 1442 19 Yes Howard Enl. of Whaley Ditch, 544 acres Adelaide and Shell Reservoir only a conveyance
Wheatland Irrigation District 54049 54049 825 No Res. 1, 2 & 3, Rock Lake, Sand Lake, McFadden Lake, Seepage Lake 188573
Whitney Reservoir 16000 No Whitney Resevoir 4300
Willwood Irrigation District 15000 11500 160 No Buffalo Bill Reservoir 330,710 (Shoshone Project)
Wilson McNalley Ditch No
Wilston McKissack Ditch No
Wise Ditch Company 993 993 21 No Christina Lake Don't have that information
Wright & Murphy Ditch Company 245 245 1 No Glendo 300
Wyoming Game and Fish Commission 600 600 2 Yes Tippetts Ranch