Ditch Birthday

Water from the South Platte River was let into the ditch for the 141st year. Officials with the ditch company celebrated the 140th anniversary of the 1870 water right that takes water from the South Platte River east of here to irrigate about 1,000 acres of farmland. That farmland is along what is known as the Godfrey Bottoms, a fertile piece of ground that separates Evans and La Salle. The ditch was started by Holun Godfrey, who came to the area in the 1860s from eastern Colorado and started an irrigated farming operation. Article from the Greeley Tribune…