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2000
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InStream Colorado - July 2000
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Stream & Lake Protection
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CWCB
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InStream Colorado - July 2000
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<br /> <br />et'" <br /> <br />et,(o <br /> <br /> <br />3 :MIll 2000 <br /> <br /> <br />Amendments establish policies for modification and conditional rights <br /> <br />EditMsNofe: PQ$t WUI!J havelhsaibed: 1) !hI! <br />alablWzmelll oJthl! iJUlream flow (n'F) waltt <br />rights witlzin theframeworlofColorilliD's prior <br />appropridiWn ikctrme: 2) the amendmenn to the <br />nT staliill," and 3) me hisloficm significan.ce oj <br />f11'llI!fU!mmts through tke1980s, indudingthe <br />ameruJmen1 w tM ;tatute CfmcerningpriJate !SF <br />claims. This issue PfOVlMS bacl:groand on. the <br />ammdmmts that the General Assemhly pasw in <br />the 1990's. The itiformation beloNl is basal on <br />commun.iulliofl.S wilk S~ Ifilm "ilk ihe <br />Snownuus-Olpitd Out C:'autUS, and the sttifft <br />of liz, ewes ami IIz,Attorney General's Offic'. <br /> <br />In response, the CWClI and CDOW statl <br />reviewed of the original data npon which <br />the decree was based and c.onducted <br />additional studies on the instream fio...... <br />requirement:) ofSIlowmass Creek,. <br />including a water availability study <br />(rerJ1lirerl hy sta lule since 1981). The <br />>taffdi>covered thatthe original12 cfu <br />year-round ISF was based on a <br />computational error. The earlier pI aCLLce <br />nf ilppropriatiTlg siTlgl~, year-round ilows <br />thronghont an entire stream reach had <br />also been refilled over Lirne. Current <br />prnctic.es typically prm1ded different <br />ticatioIlaI (tiummcr/wintcr) flow <br />recommendations and additional stream <br />[Pilch ;::;pgmpntilLion at miljor points of <br />tributary iIl'flovr. Tl~e ~taff \ revievr <br />indicated that the year-round 12 cfs <br />decreed instream flow needed to be <br /> <br />By Bahman Hatami <br /> <br />InStream Colorado Editor <br /> <br />In the early 1990'sthelnstream flow <br />(ISF) >tatute> were changed to: 1) <br />address the modification of decreed <br />inSlream flow (lSF) rights, ,nrl2) prohibit <br />the utie of conditional wa ter rightt; for ISP <br />pnrposes. This article will address these <br />amendments in that order. <br /> <br />The modiflcationlegilifution grew ont of a <br />highly contested eonrt battle that began <br />in 1990. In mid -1990, fp.presentatives of <br />Pitkin County, the Town ofSnowmass <br />Villaffi and the Aspen Skiin Cor oration <br /> <br /> <br />refmed to meet the statutory stilnonrd of <br />tIle ~~miIliInUII) alBO unt Ili.X_c::;::;ary to <br />preserve the natural environment to a <br />n~;}sonilhlp. npgree." <br /> <br />The CWCB and CDOW staff <br />reconlrneIlueu t1lat tlte 17-Tnil~ 11)118 <br />ISF reach be dh1ded into three <br />shorter segments with new flow <br />recommendations op.vp.lopf.o to reflect <br />tiUIHHlCr awl winter .in~trcam flow <br />req uirements for each segment. The ISF <br />nmounts for somf. segmf.nts vv~re <br />increa;:;eJ Juring the ;summer month;,;, <br />while they were decreased for others. <br /> <br />Throughout 1992, the CWClI held four <br />pnblic hearing>. While the pro~o>ed <br />summertime instream flow enlargements <br />were non-controversial, environmental <br />and local citizen> group> argned that the <br />instrcam flow should not be reduced <br />nllring tnf'WintfrLim.e. <br /> <br />On September 15,1992, atler <br />consideration of numerous studies, the <br />CWCB modified the flow amount for <br />Snowmass Creek as recommended by <br />staff The CWClI directed its staff to <br />inform the Jivlliion engineer (a;swould <br />any other water right holder) of its <br />,,,,~r-.~,,.::,-..--Il_...J n'~" <br /> <br /> <br />'. \T <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />~ <br />tJiilia <br />_ l.. <br /> <br /> <br />, <br />
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