Board Meeting 09/13/1984 J. William Mcdonald Director and Secretary

• Board Meeting Date: 9/13/1984
• Description: Minutes, Agenda, Memorandums, Notes September 13,14, 1984
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

STATE OF COLOIADO
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
Department of Natural Resources _
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.721 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203 M E M O R A N D U M
Richard D.Lamm
Phone: [phone] Governor
J.William McDonald
Director
TO: Members, CWCB David W.Walker
Deputy Director
FROM: Bill McDonald
DATE: September 10, 1984
SUBJECT Agenda Item 18a, September 13-14, 1984, Board Meeting--
Case No. 2-84CW076, Lloyd J. and Bessie M. Thomas
Ratify Proposed Statement of Opposition
This is an application seeking approval for expanded use of
an existing water right by way of a Plan for Augmentation for a
small domestic development near Buena Vista in Chaffee County.
The current use is an in-house domestic well for 20 gpm to serve
one single-family house and four cabins, with a priority date of
August 23 , 1976. Additional residences have been constructed or
are planned (a duplex and possibly another single-family home) ,
for which water service is needed. Besides in-house use, the
applicant also requests approval for lawn and garden irrigation
around all residences. Diversions will occur from Cottonwood
Creek via both in existing well and a proposed new well; If all
requested new uses are approved, additional depletions to
Cottonwood Creek will total 0.5 acre-feet annually. The
applicant proposes to make up such depletions from one share of
Twin Lakes water purchased from the Southeastern Colorado WCD,
which produces slightly over one acre-foot annually.
The Board holds a decree for instream flow on Cottonwood
Creek for 20 cfs. This appropriation carries a priority date of
March 14, 1979.
Because the proposed augmentation for this plan will not
benefit Cottonwood Creek, but only downstream users on the
Arkansas River, there is a theoretical injury to the Board' s
instream flow claim on Cottonwood Creek. However, the amount of
the depletion is so small that the magnitude of such injury is
not measureable.
Staff Recommendation
The staff recommends that because of the extremely small
amounts of water involved, a Statement of Opposition should not
be filed in this case.
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