Hunter Creek ACQ Final Decree

• Case Number: 80CW0018
• Stream Name: Hunter Creek
• Watershed: Roaring Fork
• Water Division: 5
• County: Pitkin
• Instream Flow Acq - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

Case No. 80CW18
Colo. Water Cons. Board
Hunter Creek
D. The•Hunter Creek Reservoir
1. The Hunter Creek Reservoir holds priority No. 724 in former
Water District 38. This storage right was decreed November
5, 1971, for 27 acre feet with an appropriation date of
October 9, 1957.
2. Hunter Creek Reservoir is an on channel reservoir located
in lots 3 and 4 of P.E. 640 and lots 6 and 7 of H.E. 146
all in sec. 4, TlOS R84W 6th P.M. The Hunter Creek Reser-
voir contains approximately 27 acre feet and has a surface
area of 6 acres.
3. Source; Hunter Creek, a tributary of the Roaring Fork
River in the Colorado River Basin.
4. Hunter Creek Reservoir has a historic consumptive use of
11.52 acre feet per year, which equates to a consumptive
use flow rate of 0.024 c.f.s.
5. The application also claimed the right to change a condi-
tional right awarded to the Hunter Creek Reservoir, known
as the Hunter Creek Reservoir Enlargement. That claim is
hereby dismissed.
E. The Koch Ditch No. 1
1. The Koch Ditch No. 1 holds priority No. 722 in former Water
District 38. This right was decreed on November 5, 1971,
for 1 c.f.s. with an appropriation date of October 7, 1957.
2. The point of diversion of Koch Ditch No. 1 is located on
the east bank of Koch Creek No. 1 at a point whence the
N.W. corner of Koch Homestead in sec. 5, T1OS R84W 6th
P.M., bears N87 deg. 25'41 "W, 262 feet.
3. Source; Koch Creek, a tributary of the Roaring Fork River
in the Colorado River Basin.
4. Koch Ditch No. 1 was decreed for irrigation, domestic, and
other beneficial purposes. The irrigated acreage is locat-
ed generally in sec. 5, TlOS R84W 6th P.M.
5. Diversions for the Koch Ditch No. 1 resulted in a histori-
cal consumptive use of 4.5 acre feet per year which equates
to a consumptive use flow rate of 0.018 c.f.s.
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