Re: Request for Services, Case No. 4-03CW107

• Description: Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 6/19/2003
• Author: Rod Kuharich, CWCB
• Title: Re: Request for Services, Case No. 4-03CW107
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

MEMORANDUM
To: Linda Bassi
First Assistant Attorney General
From: Rod Kuharich
Director, Colorado Water Conservation Board
Date: June 19, 2003
Re: Request for Services
Case No. 4- 03CW107; Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District
(Gunnison River Watershed)
Please have your staff prepare a Statement of Opposition on behalf of the Board in 4-
03CW107. A review of the facts in the application indicates that the Colorado Water
Conservation Board ( "CWCB ") holds decrees for instream flow water rights on
Washington Gulch, the Slate River, and on the East River that may be injured by this
application. The CWCB requests that the Office of the Attorney General file a Statement
of Opposition to protect the CWCB's water rights from injury. The major areas of
concern in this case, which we feel should be included in the Statement of Opposition,
are as follows:
1. Applicant's proposed augmentation plan may not replace depletions in the time,
place, and amount to protect against injury to the Board's instream now water
rights on Washington Gulch, the Slate River, and the East River.
2. The application does not present sufficient information to fully evaluate the
extent to which the Board's instream flow rights may be injured.
The attached Statement of Opposition Fact Sheet more fully describes the facts in this
case and lists the instream flow segment affected by this application. This Statement of
Opposition must be filed with the Division 4 Water Court by June 30, 2003.
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