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• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2008
• Description: ISF Section - New Appropriation Recommendations in Water Divisions 1, 2, 5, and 6
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources

1313 Shennan Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
YVYVYV. cwcb.state. co.us

Bill Ritter, Jr.
Govelllor

TO:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

Hanis D. Shellllan
DNR Executive Director

FROM:

Jeff Baessler
Stream and Lake Protection Section

Jennifer L. Gimbel
CWCB Director

DATE:

January 14, 2008

Dan McAuliffe
CWCB Deputy Director

SUBJECT:

Agenda Item 14, January 22-23, 2008, Boa."d Meeting
Stream and Lake Protection Section - New Appropriation Recommendations
in Wate." Divisions 1,2,5, and 6

Summary

This memo outlines the history of ISF recommendations identified for appropriation in 2008 and
provides an overview of the technical analyses which were performed by both the recommending
entities and staff in order for the Board to have sufficient information to declare its intent to
appropriate in accordance with the Instream Flow Rules. Staff's detailed analysis of each stream
contained in the "Instream Flow Recommendation Notebook", which was mailed separately,
provides the technical basis for each appropriation.

Staff recommends that the Board declare its intent to appropriate 19 new instream flow water
rights in Water Divisions 1, 2, 5 and 6 as identified in the attached tables.

Background

Pursuant to Rule 5d. of the Board's Instream Flow Rules, staff is requesting the Board to declare
its intent to appropriate instream flow water rights on the stream segments identified in the
attached tables. Staff has reviewed each proposed stream segment to ensure that for each flow
recommendation, the data set is complete and standard methods and procedures were followed.
In addition, staff has completed its water availability studies. Staff has identified 19 stream
segments in Water Divisions 1,2,5, and 6 for which sufficient information has been compiled
and anaysises performed upon which the Board can base its intent to appropriate. These
segments are located in Boulder, Chaffee, El Paso, Fremont, Garfield, Grand, Mesa, Moffat,
Teller and Rio Blanco Counties.

It should be noted that although 31 recommendations either were received at the February 2007
workshop, or were carryover recommendations from previous years, only the attached 19
recommendations are being moved forward by staff at this time. Staff has been unable to move

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