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<br />STATE OF COLORADO <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Shennan Street, Room 721 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3441 <br />FAX, (303) 866-4474 <br />www.cwcb.state.co.us <br /> <br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board Members <br /> <br />Bill Owens <br />Governor <br /> <br />From: Dan Merriman <br />Todd Doherty <br /> <br />Russell George <br />Executive Director <br /> <br />Rod Kuharich <br />CWCB Director <br /> <br />Date July 6, 2005 <br /> <br />Rick Brown <br />Deputy Director, <br />Acting <br /> <br />Re: Agenda Item 13, July 18-20,2005- Board Meeting <br />Stream and Lake Protection - Amendments to 2004 Instream Flow <br />Appropriations <br /> <br />Background <br />On October 5, 2004, water right applications were filed with the water courts for the <br />CWCB instream flow appropriations on North East Creek, Little Dolores River and <br />North Fork West Creek in Water Division 4. Since this time, the Division Engineer and <br />CWCB Staffs discussed modifications to the time periods for these instream flow <br />appropriations. These streams are located on the Uncompahgre Plateau and after further <br />review, the Division Engineer recommended that the instream flow time periods should <br />be modified to better reflect the hydrographs for streams in this area. The CWCB and the <br />BLM Staffs agree with this recommendation, and after reviewing all the available <br />information, believe that the natural environment will be preserved to a reasonable degree <br />by the water available for the recommended appropriations for these particular streams. <br />The table below provides a list of the streams with the modified time periods. Attached <br />are more detailed descriptions of the in stream flow appropriations. <br /> <br />1 <br />