Final Decree & Stips

• Case Number: 1-90CW193A
• Stream Name: Boulder Creek
• Watershed: Boulder
• Water Division: 1
• Water District: 6
• County: Boulder
• Instream Flow Acq - Doc Type: Archive 2

City of Boulder and
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Case No. 90CW193
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administration officials shall deliver such water'past intervening
water users to the instream flow segment in which the instream flow
use will be made by the Board.
4.13 Stream losses, if any, incurred between the point that
water is left undiverted in the stream or is released to the stream
for instream flow use and the downstream point of the stream
segment or segments in which the instream flow use is made, as
assessed by State water administration officials, shall be borne by
the Board.
4.14 The Board shall use water available under the subject
water rights pursuant to this decree solely to maintain an instream
flow not exceeding 0.5. cfs in Segment A described above, an
instream flow not exceeding 1.5 cfs in Segment B described above
and an instream flow not exceeding 15 cfs in Segment C described
above. With respect to maintenance of instream flow in Segment C,
the Board shall first use water available pursuant to its water
rights described in paragraph 1.6 above before using any water
available under this decree and the Instream Flow Agreements.
V. CHANGE OF WATER RIGHTS TO IRRIGATION USE.
5.1 The subject water rights described in paragraphs 2.1
through 2.5, 2.7 and 2.8 above are also proposed to be changed to
allow, at Boulder's option, irrigation use to be made by lessees of
Boulder once water used for instream flow uses passes the
downstream terminus of Segment C of Boulder Creek. Such right to
use water for irrigation purposes is reserved to Boulder by the
Instream Flow Agreements. Only water which is actually used by the
Board in accordance with this decree will be available for lease.
5.2 The ditches to which water is proposed to be delivered
pursuant to leases with Boulder are existing ditches with their own
decreed water rights which currently lease water from Boulder that
is available to Boulder from other sources. These ditches are
described as follows:
A. Leggett Ditch:
The decreed point of diversion for the Leggett
Ditch is on the north bank of Boulder Creek in the
NEB SEk SEk of Section 18, Township 1 North,
Range 69 West of the 6th P.M.; the location of the
actual point of diversion for the Leggett Ditch is
approximately 1,875 feet south and 188 feet west of
the NEk of Section 18, Township 1 North, Range 69
West of the 6th P.M.
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