BOARD01516

• Board Meeting Date: 7/23/1991
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Memos. Partial. No Minutes.
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
Department of Natural Resources
721 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver,.Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]

STATE OF COLORADO
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MEMORANDUM

TO:

Members. CWCB

Roy Romer
Governor
David w. Walker
Director

FROM: Dan Merriman

DATE: July 16, 1991

SUBJECf: Agenda Item 15a, July 23-24, 1991, Board Meeting--
Stipulations: Instream Flow Program
Case No. 5-88CW409; Cohen

Case SummaI)'

The Board ratified the statement of opposition filed in this case at its March, 1989,
meeting. The applicant is proposing an augmentation plan, including exchange, to replace
out-of-priority irrigation depletions on the Blue River with releases of water from Green
Mountain Reservoir, which is located approximately six miles downstream (see attached
map). The Board holds instream flow decrees on the Blue River which could be injured by
this application if the proposed out-of-priority diversions reduce flows in the Blue River
below the amounts decreed to the Board.

Proposed Stipulation

The attached stipulation, which has been accepted by the applicant and
recommended by the Attorney General's staff, provides that the augmentation plan and
exchange shall not be operated in a manner that will cause the flow of the Blue River
immediately downstream of the applicant's headgate to fall below the amounts decreed to
the Board. The applicant has also agreed to install and maintain a staff gage on the Blue
River to administer this stipulation. Once the gage is installed, the Board staff has agreed
to rate the gage,

Staff Recommendation

The staff recommends that the Board ratify the attached stipulation with Mr. Cohen,

DCM/AMJ/gl
Attachments
cohen.stp