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Home My WebLink About021 Farmers Canal Correspondence Agricultural Water User Facilities This proposed subdivision will create two separate lots. The southern lot has been previously developed and is the location of the Gallatin County Rest Home. The proposed lot directly to the north is currently undeveloped. The development of this lot will take place after subsequent applications have been approved. Please see the responses below to the items in Section 38.220.060—Additional Subdivision Preliminary Plat Supplements in the Bozeman Municipal Code. a. Type, description, ownership, and users of facilities. There is an unnamed irrigation ditch running along the east side of the property. In correspondence with the Farmers Canal Company, it was stated that there is no infrastructure to get water to the ditch. Furthermore, the Farmers Canal Company has not turned water on to that ditch for twenty years. Please see the correspondence with the Farmers Canal Company included with this submittal. b. Written documentation demonstrating active use of the facilities, for example the delivery of non-potable water supplies for irrigation, conversion to storm water facilities, or other use. If a facility is not being actively used nor intended to be used in the future, include a written plan for discontinuance including all documentation required pursuant to Montana Law. Included in this submittal is the correspondence with the Farmers Canal Company discussing the current non-use of this irrigation ditch. Because there is no planned construction of the 2-lot subdivision, a written plan for discontinuance will be provided with the subsequent applications. The location of this decommissioned irrigation ditch is where the future extension of Oak Park Rd will be constructed. c. Describe any proposed realignment. All realignments must comply with all relevant requirements of Montana Law. There is no proposed realignment of the irrigation ditch for the creation of this 2-lot minor subdivision. Future development of the property will determine if the irrigation ditch will be realigned or removed altogether. d. Information from the owner(s) of the facility concerning the proposed use or discontinuance of the facility. Please see the correspondence with the Farmers Canal Company included in this submittal. With the current minor subdivision application, there is no planned changes to the irrigation ditch. Correspondence will continue with the Farmers Canal Company for the proposed discontinuance of the facility for the future development of the northern lot. Hidden Creek Subdivision Preliminary Plat Application To whom it may concern, The Board of Directors of Farmers Canal Company of Gallatin County have discussed the situation with the irrigation ditch North of Gallatin County Rest Home. There has been no means of diverting water from Farmers Canal, nor has there been any request for water turned in, to this irrigation ditch for at least twenty-five years. When it was first proposed to pipe the canal along S. lgtn Street, I personally inspected the old wooden diversion headgate near the intersection at 19th and Olive Street. It was in very bad condition. I then walked the ditch. It was intact for about 60 feet, the rest of it was gone, replaced by condos. It was obvious that the ditch users had not protected their ditch to continue to convey Farmers Canal water. Since there was no means of sending water down that ditch anymore, the canal was piped with no diversion at that location. The responsibility for maintaining, preserving and protecting lateral ditches is on the ditch users, not the Canal Co. The responsibility of FCC to furnish water as requested by shareholders ends at the headgates of the individual laterals, or ditches. FCC President Bill Tatarka spoke with Mary Palffy recently and stated that there was no longer any means of getting FCC water to her property, nor has there been for many years. The FCC Directors are unable to declare the ditch abandoned. The Directors of Farmers Canal Company do not know if there are any other water users on this ditch, as any directors or ditch riders from when this ditch was still active, are gone. Sincerely, ��,„r�,. .,,��,� � .,f`"�� Date � �f .�.� 1 �� y Dan Triemstra Secretary, Farmers Canal Company Erik Ringsak From: Dan Triemstra < > Sent: Saturday,June 29, 2024 8:55 PM To: Erik Ringsak Cc: ; Subject: Re: Hidden Creek - Ditch WARNING: This email originated from an external sender. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. Hello all, I personally walked the irrigation ditch at the property referenced in your first email. Though the ditch is still intact going north from the Rest Home property line, there really is no ditch left to the south, along the property line and on towards Durston Road. As I have never been a water user on that ditch, I can not declare that it is abandoned. However, it appears that the infrastructure to get Farmers Canal water to the ditch has not been preserved, maintained or protected for some time.The responsibility for maintaining laterals of Farmers Canal rests with the ditch users of each individual ditch. Farmers Canal Company has not turned water in to that ditch for at least twenty years. Currently, the terminus for Farmers Canal Company operations on the canal end at the Section Line ditch,just west of Rosauers. Dan Triemstra Secretary, Farmers Canal Company On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 5:41 PM Erik Ringsak< >wrote: Thanks Dan. Feel free to give me a call with any questions. 1 � h�r�ti :� :=:LN-I-t)� E�GIDEE3I�C= r��:'��w'� �- — I -=.�, _�-:�::__�� _ ERIK RINGSAK, P.E. � Civil Department Manager 895 Technology Blvd,Ste 203 � Bozeman,MT 59718 0: � D: � C: www.wwcenpineerina.com From: Dan Triemstra <danbevt@�mail.com> Sent:Tuesday,June 25, 2024 4:03 PM To: Erik Ringsak<erin�sak@wwcen�ineerin�.com> Cc: seth@uhousin�partners.com; tyson@uhousin�partners.com Subject: Re: Hidden Creek- Ditch WARNING: This email originated from an external sender. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. I will try to run into town tomorrow morning and take a look at that. Dan On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 3:29 PM Erik Ringsak< >wrote: Dan, � I z Just checking in on the email below.Any update? Thanks, I ERIK RINGSAK, P.E. � Civil Department Manager 895 Technology Blvd,Ste 203 � Bozeman,MT 59718 0: � D: � C: www.wwcenqineerina.com I � From: Erik Ringsak Sent: Monday, June 17, 2024 6:13 PM To: Subject: Hidden Creek- Ditch Da n, Thank you for your taking the time to speak with me. The subject property is located right behind the Gallatin Valley Rest Home and South of Juniper Street. There is a ditch on the East side of the property. To my knowledge and from what has been stated to me, that ditch is no longer active or in use. 3 Just hoping to get your thoughts before we move forward with the application process to the City. Thanks, I ERIK RINGSAK, P.E. � Civil Department Manager 895 Technology Blvd,Ste 203 � Bozeman,MT 59718 0: � D: � C: www.wwcenqineerina.com � � 4