BOARD00819

• Board Meeting Date: 11/23/1998
• Description: ISF Section - New Appropriations - Notice to Appropriate Instream Flow Water Rights in Water Division 2 - Fourmile and Tennessee Creeks
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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The Bureau of Land Managment realizes that the Four Mile Creek
is an intermittent stream, with the water being used over ,and
over arrain under the decrees of the water users. Sometimes the
surface water is non-existent, but raises a short ways down stream.
Water meters seem to give CO Water Conservation Board more water
demands than is fair, especially in light of being a 1998 water
right (100 years our Junior), It sounded reassuring as it was
explained at the meeting, where in essence it really is not.

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For all the above reasons we do object to the plan as it is.
It would cause an unfair "tall:ing" of the assests of the landown:~r
aud their ability to seek a change in decree if necessary.

If water use were to be sold, consumptive use' would come
into effect and the Courts have already provided for a minimum
stream flow by the amountof water allowed to be transferred after
consumptive use has been determined.

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There ,can be no fair alternative, unless the CO Water Conservation
Board'is willlingto'fundinstallation of monitored measuring
s~a t;ions and fund the, maintence', recording of data in each of'
the reaches; 'Landowhers would have access to accurate stream
flow, records for change ofcde:re:s and/or ,making ,upstream
exchanges. '

In closing, ,we.-sincerely hope you will consider"the landowners .
who have worll:ed extremely hard for years in agricultre and have
made every effort to maintain their land and fought for the
water they are entitled to (at great expense to them). Consider
what agriculture has done for Colorado and please realize where
our priorities should be,such as helping feed our nation.

Thank you,

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~ and Betty M. Chess

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