BOARD01914

• Board Meeting Date: 12/4/1974
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Mr. Vandemoer:

you can use the stream for a carrier and that water you
. If it is somebody ~ 5 water and "he says. I. want to ..
point A, which is where the stream is live again . . .

But if there was an earlier right with an earlier date.

Mr. Moses: No.
can't take outi
release this to

Mr. Moses: You have to buy a good old water right. It has to be a
number one right.

Mr. Fetcher: One more
where a.group might be
conservation board for
minimum stream flows.

question. We have a situation in Routt County
considering donating earlier rights to the water
the express purpose of making those rights into
How do you look on that?

I

Mr. Moses: That is exactly what they are trying to do in Boulder. I
don't know whether they are going to give it to the board. but they will
give it to somebody.

Mr. Sparks: Well. I would think that they would have to give it to us
because we are the ones that have the decree. We would in turn have to
go in for a change of use in a court procedure and get it adjudicated
for this purpose.

Mr. Fetcher: That is the point I was trying to get.

Mr. Moses: The Boulder one is a little more complicated. It is not
rea~ly a good example. What we are going to get in Boulder are units
of Big T. which are stored in Boulder Reservoir. They will be used and
instead of Boulder using water out of Barker Reservoir. which is upstream
on Boulder Creek, they will release water out of Boulder Creek and
exchange it for the Big T water that is stored in Boulder Reservoir.

Mr. Fetcher: I gather that you will accept the gift. then.

Mr. Moses: I think that is the kind of thing that will be needed to
make the whole act effective.

Mr. Geissinger: I think that should be encouraged.

Mr. Sparks: Yes. I might point out that what these studies show on
these particular creeks is that the water is available for these mini-
mum stream flows today.

Mr. Geissinger: Right.

Mr. S1;>arks: Not only is the water there, but there is a lot more water I
than 1S necessary under present conditions. . We don't have any complaints
then until some future time somebody tries to pull it down below the
minimum. At the time we made our appropriation this water was available
and we are protected then to that extent. We will have cases where our
appropriation will be greater than the available water because of other
appropriations. There is nothing we can do about that, except what has
been suggested here. either purchase the water or somebody can donate
it to us to bring it up to that minimum flow.

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