ISFAPP01466

• Case Number: 02CW0279
• Stream Name: Specie Creek
• Watershed: San Miguel River
• Water Division: 4
• Water District: 60
• County: San Miguel
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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1. The name and address of the Applicant is:

Colorado Water Conservation Board
1313 Sherman Street Suite 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
[phone]

2. The name of the natural stream is:
Specie Creek

3. The source of the water is:
Specie Creek, tributary to the San Miguel River.

4. Legal description of the stream segment through which an instream
flow is claimed:

The confluence with an unnamed tributary at latitude 370 59' 28"N and
longitude 1 080 06' 36"W as the upstream terminus and extending to the
confluence with the San Miguel River at latitude 380 01' 51 "N and
longitude 108006' 33 "W as the downstream terminus, being a distance of
approximately 3.2 miles. This segment can be located on the Placerville and
Little Cone V.S.G.S. quadrangles.

5. Use of water:

Instream flow to preserve the natural environment to a reasonable
degree.

6. Date of initiation of appropriation:

January 23, 2002.

7. The water was first applied to the above beneficial use on January 23,
2002, by action of the Colorado Water Conservation Board under the
provision ofC.R.S. S S 37-92-102(3),37-92-103(3), (4), (10).

8. Amount of water claimed (ABSOLUTE): Instream flow of 1.6 cfs (April
1 - April 30); 4.3 cfs (May 1 - May 31); 0.2 cfs (June 1 - March 3]).

9. Remarks: The Specie Creek instream flow right begins below the J & M
Hughes Ditch ("Hughes Ditch"). The CWCB recognizes the Hughes
Ditch historic practice of diverting all water upstream of the Hughes