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>Finding of No Significant Impact Partial Assignment of New Union Ditch Company Ltd.s Contract Entitlement in Lucky Peak Reservoir to Wilderness Ranch Owners Association and Osprey Subdivision Property Owners Association
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Finding of No Significant Impact Partial Assignment of New Union Ditch Company Ltd.s Contract Entitlement in Lucky Peak Reservoir to Wilderness Ranch Owners Association and Osprey Subdivision Property Owners Association
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has prepared a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that evaluates the environmental effects afthe Reclamation's proposed approval of an assignment of a portion of New Union Ditch Company's (New Union's) contract entitlement in Lucky Peak Reservoir to Wilderness Ranch and Osprey Subdivisions. New Union recently converted their water service corHract with Reclamation for 1,400 acre feet of Lucky Peak storage for irrigation to a repayment contract. This contract provides for the assignment of all or part of their storage to other entities, subject to approval by Reclamation. New Union has entered into an agreement with Wilderness Ranch for an assignment of 200 acre feet of their contract entitlement and a similar agreement with Osprey for 300 acre feet. Wilderness Ranch and Osprey are semi-rural subdivisions located along Mores Creek, a Boise River tributary which flows into Lucky Peak Reservoir. Both subdivisions divert from Mores Creek for their landscape irrigation water supply. Wilderness Ranch also uses Mores Creek for its drinking water supply. Both subdivisions have water rights that are relatively junior to other Mores Creek water rights that are diverted downstream from Lucky Peak Reservoir. Ifand when Mores Creek water rights are administered in conjunction with Boise River water rights by Idaho Department of water Resources, Wilderness Ranch and Osprey risk curtailment of their diversions during late summer in drought years to fulfill senior water rights downstream. By acquiring storage in Lucky Peak Reservoir, the subdivisions can replace their Mores Creek diversions with Lucky Peak storage delivered downstream and would be allowed to continue to divert even when Mores Creek flows are relatively low.
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