BOARD01746

• Board Meeting Date: 11/15/2005
• Description: ISF Section - 2006 New Appropriation Recommendations in Water Divisions 1,4,5,6 and 7
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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would your opinion as to the need to augment at or upstream

of that recreational in-channeling diversion be the same?

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Yes.
I take it you have no knowledge as to the basis

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5 upon which the in-stream flow rights in the east fork of

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the Eagle River or the Eagle River were adjudicated,

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7 originally adjudicated?

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Yes, I was not here. I was not working for the

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So you don't have any knowledge as to the factual

11 basis upon which those in-stream flows were appropriated?

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No, I do not.

Q. Would you agree that the Colo,rado Water
Conservation Board only has the authority to appropriate

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natural environment to a reasonable degree?
A. Yes.

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You indicated that you've reviewed the decrees in

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20 River and the Eagle River, correct?

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Yes.

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!n those decrees are not there findings that the

amounts appropriated were the minimum amounts necessary to

protect the natural environment to a reasonable degree?

A. To preserve, yes.

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