9351

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9351
• Author: Hobbs, G.
• Title: Water For Recreation, Water Quality, and Wetlands".
• USFW Year: 1990.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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People v. Emmert,
198 Colo. 137, 141-142, 597 P.2d 1025, 1027-1028
(1979)
Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v.
Colorado Water Conservation Bd.,
197 Colo. 469, 476, 594 P.2d 570, 574-575 (1979)
4. Private Instream Flow Water Rights
Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. Rocky
Mountain Power Co.,
158 Colo. 331, 336-337, 406 P.2d 798, 800-801
(1965)
III. REQUIREMENT OF CAPTURE, POSSESSION AND CONTROL OF WATER
FOR A VALID APPROPRIATION HAS ONE EXCEPTION - TAE
MINIMUM STREAM PROGRAM OF THE COLORADO WATER
CONSERVATION BOARD.
In examining the question of instream flows for
recreation or other instream uses, it is necessary to analyze how
the CWCB instream flow program came to be, how it was upheld by
the Colorado Supreme Court, and the statutory requirements
applicable to entry of a decree recognizing a valid appropriation
in Colorado.
The Colorado Constitutional provisions pertaining to
water rights are supplemented by provisions of statute.
Regulation of the water rights appropriative and administrative
system through statutory criteria adopted by the Colorado General
Assembly has been upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court on many
occasions throughout this century.}~ C.R.S. $ 37-92-102(1)(a)
1/ See, e•a., Danielson v. Jones, 698 P.2d
State ex rel. Danielson v. Vickrov, 627 P.2d
West End Irriaation Co. v. Garvey, 117 Colo.
(1947); German Ditch & Reservoir Co. v. Plat
Co., 67 Colo. 390, 178 P. 896 (1919); n Re ~
Reservoir Co., 56 Colo. 252, 139 P.2 (1913);
240 (Colo. 1985);
752 (Colo. 1981);
109, 184 P.2d 476
~e Valley Irrigation
3erman Ditch &
New Cache la Poudre
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