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water by a county, municipality, city and <br />county, water district, water and sanitation <br />district, water conservation district, or <br />water conservancy district for recreational <br />in- channel diversion purposes . . . . <br />37- 92- 103(4) (emphasis added). Thus, beneficial use now <br />expressly includes diversions of water "for recreational in- <br />channel diversion purposes." To give full effect to the General <br />Assembly's intent, we thereby are directed to the definition of <br />a RICD, see Bil Boom 961 P.2d at 470: <br />"Recreational in- channel diversion" means <br />the minimum stream flow as it is diverted, <br />captured, controlled, and placed to <br />beneficial use between specific points <br />defined by physical control structures <br />pursuant to an application filed by a <br />county, municipality, city and county, water <br />district, water and sanitation district, <br />water conservation district, or water <br />conservancy district for a reasonable <br />recreation experience in and on the water. <br />37- 92- 103(10.3). <br />Reading the two definitions together as we must, see Bill <br />Boom 961 P.2d at 470, and construing them as written, see, <br />e.g. Pierson 48 P.3d at 1218 -19, it is clear that the General <br />Assembly intended beneficial use to encompass in- channel <br />recreational uses of water, but only those uses which are <br />limited to the "minimum stream flow" "for a reasonable <br />recreation experience in and on the water." If an in- channel <br />recreational appropriator seeks more than the minimum stream <br />flow for a reasonable recreation experience in and on the water, <br />30 <br />