BOARD00929

• Board Meeting Date: 11/9/1992
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos. Partial.
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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STATE OF COLORADO

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
Department of Natural Resources

721 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver. Colorado 80203
Phone [phone]
FAA [phone]

MEMORANDUM

Roy Ramer
Govemor

TO:

Ken Salazar
Executive DirectOr

Members, CWCB

FROM:

Dan Merriman

Daries C. Ula. P.E.
Division DirectOr

DATE: October 23, 1992

SUBJECf: Agenda Item 12a, November 9-10, 1992, Board Meeting--
Instream Flow Program: Statements of Opposition
Case No. 1-92CW079; City of Louisville

Application Summary

This is an application for a change of water rights on South Boulder Creek near
Eldorado Springs in Boulder County (see attached map). Applicant seeks to change the
type of use, place of use, time of use and points of diversion of its share of senior water
rights in the Marshall Lake Division of the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company and
the South Boulder and Coal Creek Ditch Company. Applicant's water rights are currently
diverted out of South Boulder Creek through the Community Ditch and the South Boulder
and Coal Creek Ditch. Additional water rights are diverted out of Clear Creek through the
Church Ditch. Applicant proposes alternate points of diversion for its water rights through
the City of Louisville Pipeline and the Coal Creek Golf Course Pipelines. Furthermore,
applicant intends to divert its rights to various alternate points of storage within the Coal
Creek drainage basin. The water rights will be changed from direct flow irrigation rights to
year-round storage and municipal rights.

CWCB Appropriation

The Board holds an instream flow decree on South Boulder Creek for 15 cfs during
the summer, and 2 cfs during the winter with an appropriation date of December 2, 1980,
which could be injured by this application.

Potential for Injury

The applicant's proposed change in use of its water rights may injure the Board's
instream flow water rights by expanding the amount and/or timing of diversions from South
Boulder Creek.