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<br />Cipper Gunnison ltiver Wdter Conservancy Distric?t <br />112CW438 <br />? <br /> <br />9 Ihe Couat iias exclusive jujisdiction over the s-ubJectmatter of this pYnceeding pursuant to <br />C R.S §37-92-203, and ovez all perso.ns or entities affected hereby, wYtether they have <br />aPPcas-ed or not. <br />10, the DistTict, a waizr consetvanc.y district, is an entity designatted by SB 216; 20U1 Goto <br />Sess. Laws 1187-11$8 (hereinafter "S B. 216"), as entitled to approgriate an,RICI}. C R.S. <br />§ 37-92-10.744) ana (10 3) <br />,- <br />11. Applicant has effected an apprapiiation of water by demonsuaring a specific plan anct inteni <br />to cliveii the claiined amauzits of watec at the cta.imed time pejiods and to apply suc.h water <br />t0 6eneficiai use. Specificaliy, the Guntaison R.iver Whitewa.ter Coutse has been designed <br />to be conducive to many tvpes af' whitewater boa?iug far a vaziety of different skiI! Ievc1s., <br />as applieaut hapes ta dz aw both lc>cals and toutists, host cocnpetitious, eriltaace.W,estetn State <br />College's outdoor rsczeation progtam, and strengthen the region's vverall econom,y, CrFCB <br />v U?7per C'runnison, 109 P 3d at 589; C R S§ 37-92-I03{3}(a) A.pplicaut has campteteci <br />thc "first step" toward the conditional appiapriatiou,by showing the ccquisite intent. ta <br />appropriate aceompanied by an open, ghysicat demonstration of'tbat iutent +L''a1y ajThornton <br />1l City of Fort Collin.s, 8:3{) I1.2d 915, 924-925 (L'olo. 1992), <br />12. The amoumts of watet- ciaimed and de=ea herein will be contiaded in the wa#er"s natuzal <br />course in the Gunnison Rivec during ihe claimed rime peiiods by means of the la-shapeci dam <br />stzuctures and offset water deflectoi devices Coanstaueted orproposed fot errustruoian in the <br />Gunnisan River Whitewater Coucse as described aboye in section 7 C.R S4 § 37-92-I03(7). <br />13 Iha cantrotling of the claimee3 amounts of water dtuing the claimed tirne peiaocis by the <br />proposui in-c:hannel structuies and devices and the use of'sueh watet for.the intended <br />cwreabonal in-channel boaiing ptupcsses represents use of that aunouat of` evater= thaf -is <br />ceasonableandapprnpsiate under.ieasonab3yefficicntpi acticestoaccomplishw.ithouEwaste the pi.upose for which the appcopriation was lawfullymarle bythe appEtcani.. C.R S.§ 37-92- <br />I03(4) and 103(7) <br />14„ The cecreational in-channe} diversion water iight kerein deczeed naeefs the:,statutary <br />definition of "recreattonal in-chann.el diversian." Ihus, each flow rate hetm?n decreetl far <br />the Gunniscn Rivei VV'hitewater Caurse, during fihe time periad Far which it is decieed, mee#s <br />the definirion of a"recreationaE in channel diversiort" 5Et E02th rII S.B 216 and attituiated <br />az/a6/os <br />.7_ <br />4 . <br />; .. <br />; <br />? <br />{-. <br />8 <br />?'-.. <br />?