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• Board Meeting Date: 7/21/2010
• Description: Stream & Lake Protection Section - Case Nos. 6-07CW061 and 6-07CW072: Applications of Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 6, COLORADO Fili
Rotitt ConnO, Distriel Court 14th .11)
ig Date: 0o '5 2009 2:5 1 I'M NI DT
P.O. Box 773117 Fili
ig In: 27407097
Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80477 Ho
im Clerk: Carol A Schaffrick
Phone Number: [phone]
A COURT USE ONLY A
CONCERNING THE APPLICATION FOR WATER RIGHTS OF:
UPPER YAMPA WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT
IN THE YAMPA RIVER OR ITS TRIBUTARIES
Case No. 07CW61
IN RoUTT COUNTY, COLORADO.
WATER DiviSION 6
FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND
JUDGMENT AND DECREE
This matter came before the Court upon the Application for Change of Water Rights.
The Court having reviewed the Application and other pleadings in this case, and now being fully
advised with respect to this matter, enters the following Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law
and Judgment and Decree:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. Applicant. The Applicant is the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District, c/o Kevin
McBride, General Manager, whose address is P. 0. Box 880339, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
80488 (hereafter, the "Applicant" or "District"). Applicant is represented in this matter by Weiss
& Van Scoyk, LLP, 600 South Lincoln Avenue, Suite 202, Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80487,
[phone], and Balcomb & Green, P.C., P.O. Drawer 790, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
81602, [phone].
A. The District was formed under the Water Conservancy Act of the State of
Colorado by decree of the Routt County District Court in Civil Action 3815 on March 8,
1966. See generally C.R.S. § 37-45-101 through 153. The District's purpose was and is to
conserve, develop, and stabilize supplies of water for domestic, irrigation, manufacturing
and other beneficial uses and by the construction of works for such purposes as well as
plan for and assist with the development of water resources of the District for municipal,
domestic, industrial, recreational and other beneficial uses of water resources within the
District among other purposes. The District is divided into three (3) divisions with a total
of nine (9) directors, three from each division, who constitute the District's Board of
Directors.