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Date of Initiation of Appropriation; August 1, 1910 <br /> Date Water First Applied to Beneficial Use: August l; 1910 <br /> How Appropriation was Initiated: By appropriating water and <br /> applying the same to beneficial use. <br /> Amount of Water Claimed: Absolute, Lottis Creek, 60.0 c.f.s.; total <br /> from tributaries: <br /> (a) Cross Creek 5.0 c.f.s; <br /> (b) Cameron Creek, 12.5 c.f.s.; <br /> (c) Lottis Creek above Cameron Creek., 10.0 c.f.s.; and <br /> (d) Union Creek, 12.5 c.f.s.: <br /> and the claimants claim the following amounts of water in Lottis Creek at-the <br /> following locations: <br /> Above the confluence of Cameron Creek 10.0 c.f.s. <br /> Below the confluence of Cameron Creek 22.5 c.f.s. <br /> Below the confluence of Cross Creek 27.5 c.f.s. <br /> Below the confluence of Union Creek. 40.0 c.f.s. <br /> Below the confluence of South Lottis Creek 60.0 c.f.s. <br /> Use or Proposed Use of Water: Stockwater, recreation, fish culture, <br /> wildlife procreation and heritage preservation. <br /> Applicants do not claim the exclusive use of said water, nor a <br /> consumptive use, and plan to use it in common with the general public and/or <br /> the State of Colorado, provided only that the public use thereof does not <br /> interfere with the applicants' appropriation and use. <br /> It is obvious that in order. to prevent adverse affect to existing <br /> rights .on the river system that such a decree.must and, in this case, is <br /> limited to the upper reaches of the streams concerned and located above <br /> all other appropriations or decreed rights. To do otherwise would make it <br /> extremely difficult, if not impossible, to effectively administer the overall <br /> water rights and water use situation. <br /> RULING <br /> IT IS THE RULING OF THE REFEREE that LOTTIS CREED, together with its <br /> tributaries, Cross Creek, Cameron Creek and Union Creek, is APPROVED AND GRANTED <br /> an ABSOLUTE DECREE for the use and benefit of the parties lawfully entitled <br /> thereto, for an amount of water not to exceed 60.0 c.f.s, for stockwater, <br /> recreation, fish culture, wildlife procreation and heritage preservation, with <br /> an appropriation date of August 1, 1910. <br /> AND FURTHER, that the same shall, within that total , be entitled to <br /> the quantities at each confluence with its tributaries, as outlined in the <br /> findings above. <br /> Applicants' rights are subject to all such rights of the United <br /> States of America in the subject sources, including reserved rights, as are <br /> now or will hereafter be determined by law. <br /> -4- <br />