BOARD00246

• Board Meeting Date: 11/3/1994
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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The Division and the CWCB staff conducted a public meeting in Evergreen where the proposed
instream flow recommendations were presented in a public forum. Approximately 25 people were
in attendance at this public meeting. Public comments were received both in support of the
proposed recommendations and in opposition to some of the instream flow segments. In addition
to this public meeting, the Division and the CWCB participated in several meetings with Bear
Creek water users where specific concerns were discussed. As a result of these meetings several
of the instream flow segments were modified in order to address water user concerns.

RECOMMENDA nON CLARIFICA nONS

The CWCB approved a portion of the instream flow recommendations that were presented in the
final notice at the September 13 - 14 meeting. The streams that were not acted on were several of
the small tributary streams. The Board did not feel that they had sufficient information to act on
the following stream segments:
Lost Creek
Indian Creek
Corral Creek
Yankee Creek
Cub Creek
Blue Creek
Troublesome Creek
North Turkey Creek
Turkey Creek

In addition to the above streams, the Board elected to postpone final action on one segment of
Bear Creek which passes through the Denver metro area. They instructed the staff to continue to
work on the concerns that were raised by the Denver Water Department. To the extent that
Denver's concerns relate to biological and technical issues, the Division will assist the CWCB staff
in these efforts.

In an effort to provide the Board with additional information regarding the above streams, the
following narratives for each stream segment are provided for the Board's consideration at the
next meeting.

LOST CREEK

Lost Creek is a headwaters stream that originates on the flanks of Mount Evans at an elevation of
nearly 11000 feet. It flows in a northeasterly direction for 4.4 miles through national forest land
and DOW land. Cross section measurements and electrofishing were done on 10/4/88 at the
lower end of the segment. The fishery consists ofa naturally reproducing (wild) brook trout
population. The flow recommendations were based on the standard application of the three
hydraulic criteria with all three criteria being met for the summer time period and two criteria
being met for the winter period. The flow recommendation is 1.5 cfs April through October 15
and 0.5 cfs for the remainder of the year; these flows are needed to protect the wild brook trout of