5-04CW191 Final Decree - CWCB Acq - Bowman Ditch

• Case Number: 04CW0191
• Stream Name: Cathedral Creek
• Water Division: 5
• Instream Flow Acq - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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From previous decree:

Bowman Ditch, 0.5 cfs, appropriation date of March 20, 1918;
Bowman Ditch, 1.15 cfs, appropriation date of May 15, 1920.

These water rights were originally decreed by the District Court in and for Rio Blanco
County, in Case No, 624, Matter Nos. 349, entered May 26, 1942.

3. The source of the water is: Willow Creek, a tributary of Cathedral Creek, a tributary of
East Douglas Creek, a tributary of the White River.

4. Proposed change: The Bowman Ditch water rights, \\'hich were decreed for irrigation
purposes, were historically used to irrigate an average of 26.6 acres in sections 16 and 21 of
T3S, RlOOW, 6th P.M., with return flows accruing to Cathedral Creek just below its
confluence with Willow Creek. Pursuant to C.R.S. S 37-92-102(3), the applicant seeks to
change the use from irrigation to instream flow use by the CWCB to preserve the natural
environment to a reasonable degree.

5. Place of use (see map attached hereto as Exhibit A):

a) The natural stream channel of Cathedral Creek from its confluence with Willow Creek
(NE/4, SE/4, S 16, T3S, R 100W, 6th P.M.) as the upstream terminus, extending to the
confluence with East Douglas Creek (SE/4, SW/4, S17, T3S, RIOOW, 6th P.M.) as the
downstream terminus, a distance of approximately 2 miles. This segment can be located
on the Black Cabin Gulch U.S.G.S. quadrangle.

b) For administrative purposes only:
Upper Terminus = NE SE S16, T3N, R 100 W, 6P.M.
800' West of East Section Line & 1415' North of South Section Line
UTM: Easting 190292; Northing 4410050, NAD 83, Zone 13.

Lower Terminus = SE SW S17, T3N, RIOOW, 6P.M.
2300' East of West Section Line & 1050' North of South Section Line
UTM: Easting 188024; Northing 4410026, NAD 83, Zone 13.

6. Amounts of water claimed for instream flow (ABSOLUTE):

CWCB requests a change of water right to change 1.65 cfs decreed to the Bowman Ditch
for irrigation to instream flow use in the amount of 0.15, for the period of May 1 through
July 31, with an appropriation date of March 20, 1918. The amount of 0.15 cfs represents
the consumptive use portion of the two water rights decreed to the Bowman Ditch. Lands
historically irrigated by the water rights being changed will be permanently dried up and
will no longer be decreed to the Bowman Ditch. There are no remaining rights decreed to
the Bowman Ditch.

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