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<br />,- ,.. <br />.. :.. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />J <br /> <br />March 17, 1999 <br />POBox 1691 <br />Frisco, CO 80443 <br /> <br />. <br />e <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />clo Greg Espergen <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />RE: Town of Breckenridge's diversion of Miner's Creek <br /> <br />Dear Water Conservation Board: <br /> <br />We are writing to encourage you to make every effort to protect the stream flows in <br />Miner's Creek. We have lived near Miner's Creek for over 10 years and have enjoyed the <br />natural and pristine setting Miner's Creek provides just outside the Town of Frisco. Brook <br />trout and some brown trout swim up out of Bill's Ranch Lake into a series of beaver ponds <br />near our house, then up into the National Forest above Rainbow Lake. This is exactly the <br />kind of natural environment the instream flow program was created to protect. Please do <br />not compromise this unique and healthy stream system just to enable more development or <br />snow making in the Blue River drainage where historic placer mining and acid mine <br />drainage have made a mess of the Blue River. <br /> <br />Miner's Creek is basically a series of meadows and beaver ponds connected by short e <br />reaches of the creek. This pattern stretchs well into the upper reaches, even above the <br />Colorado Trail crossing. In the fall when the fish move out of these ponds there is just <br />enough water to provide passage into their spawning gravels. It is hard to imagine any <br />mitigation that would still allow this migi'ation with any less water flowing in the creek. <br />. We encourage you to do field studies to confirm impacts prior to making a decision to allow <br />any injury to the minimum stream flow filing. <br /> <br />Bill's Ranch Homeowner's Association was concerned about this situation and hired an <br />attorney to sort out water rights in the neighborhood. After spending aU of our association <br />dues we still don't have a clear picture of the local water rights situation. As a group of <br />long time residents confronted by powerful interests, we believe we have water rights that <br />will be injured but need more time to fully explore this concern. Therefore, we are <br />depending on the Colorado Water Conservation Board to protect our interests at this time. <br />Please do the right thing. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />~t.~~ <br />Annie c~~n <br /> <br /> <br />e <br />