BOARD00501

• Board Meeting Date: 3/22/2005
• Description: ISF Section - Proposed Cunningham Creek Flow Reduction
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO

. Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Governor

To:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

Russell George
Executive Director

From: Dan Merriman and Linda Bassi

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Date: March 11, 2005

Re: Agenda No.9, March 22-23, 2005 Board Meeting:
Cunningham Creek Flow Reduction

Proposed

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

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The Colorado Division of Wildlife ("CD OW") will make a presentation to the Board on its efforts to
protect and restore the Cunningham Creek population of genetically pure Colorado River Cutthroat
Trout, which are a species of special concern in Colorado. The CWCB currently holds instream
flow water rights on Cunningham Creek for 1.0 cfs (4/1 - 9/30) and 0.5 cfs (10/1 - 3/31), decreed in
Case No. 5-73W195l, beginning at the Fryingpan-Arkansas diversion and extending downstream to
the confluence with the North Fork of the Fryingpan River, a distance of approximately 3.2 miles,
and on Middle Cunningham Creek for 1.0 cfs (4/1 - 9/30) and 0.5 cfs (10/1 - 3/31) decreed in Case
No. 5-73Wl957, beginning at the Fryingpan-Arkansas Diversion and extending downstream to the
confluence with Cunningham Creek, a distance of approximately 0.5 miles.

The CDOW plans to eradicate non-native fish in Cunningham Creek without using chemicals, and
will ask the Board to consent to a temporary flow reduction below the Board's decreed instream
flow amounts as a means to achieve this. The CDOW will provide written materials and make a
presentation to the Board at the March Board meeting.

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
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