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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPLEASANT VALLEY AND LAKE CANAL BROWN FARM - Filed OA-OTHER AGREEMENTS - 2002-10-23AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT is made this // N day of February, 1991, by and between the City of Fort Collins, Colorado (City), and the Pleasant Valley and Lake Canal Company (Company). FACTUAL BACKGROUND The Company is a mutual ditch company owning, operating and maintaining a canal which traverses the northern and western areas of the City. The City is a substantial shareholder of the Company. The City has received complaints from homeowners in the "Brown Farm" subdivision concerning water in their basements. Investigation by the City discloses that a number of developers and contractors constructed basements in certain portions of that subdivision having a very high groundwater table. Investigation has disclosed that a high groundwater table in that area occurs as a result of a combination of topography, precipitation, and natural surface waters, and also that the height of the groundwater table is influenced by seepage from the Company's canal in that location. The Company and the City agree that the ditch has been properly operated and maintained, and that seepage from the bank and beds of the ditch is a natural phenomenon, in no way exacerbated by any impropriety or negligence upon the part of the Company or its employees, or the City. The Company and the City further agree that neither has any legal obligation to take any steps to remedy this situation for the homeowners. However, the City, seeking to protect and preserve the public health, safety and welfare, desires to alleviate the condition of the homeowners by reducing seepage from the banks and bed of the ditch to the end of lowering the groundwater table for the benefit of citizens living in that area. The Company has no objection. AGREEMENT NOW, THEREFORE, it is agreed: 1. At the City's expense, the City may install a lining, as more particularly described on Sketch 1, attached, in and on the bed and banks of that portion of the Company's canal traversing the Southeast Quarter of Section 21, Township 7 North, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., Larimer County, Colorado, as more particularly described on Sketch 2, attached. The lining will be designed to reduce seepage from the canal into the Brown Farm subdivision. 2. All work done by the City shall be done at such times agreeable to the Company and as will not interfere with the carriage of water in the canal during the irrigation season. 3. The work will be accomplished in such a manner as not to restrict in any way the present water carrying capacity of the canal; and the work shall be done in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Company. The project will be designed and constructed so as to avoid damage to the canal and if any damage shall occur it will be immediately repaired by the City to the satisfaction of the Company. 4. If any of the work is accomplished by private contractors hired by the City, the City shall require such contractors to be fully insured against any claims of liability, and the City will ensure that all contractors, subcontractors, laborers, and materialmen are fully paid so as to protect the Company from the filing of any mechanic's liens. i� 5. The City indemnifies and holds harmless the Company, its directors, officers and employees, from any demands or claims of liability of any nature arising from any of the actions of the City under this agreement, and agrees to pay all legal costs and expenses in the event of any suit asserting such liability on the part of the Company, its directors, officers and employees. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused these presents to be executed effective the day and year first above mentioned. CITY OF FORT COLLINS ATTEST: k_ Ci By: _ PLEASANT VALLEY AND LAKE CANAL COMPANY ATTEST: G<sL President \whf\fta-pvlc.egt - 3 - viL 7 IN HHIr No Text