BOARD02093

• Board Meeting Date: 5/18/1979
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. HELTON: Before we discuss the agreement, maybe we should point
out that Denver has an existing water system in the Williams Basin.
They have developments that divert water from Bobtail, Mcqueary and
Steelman Creeks. Those are presently senior water rights.

In addition to that, they have senior conditional water rights that I
allow them to take water from the drainage of the Middle Fork, South
Fork and Darling Creek. The conclusion of all this is that the
Denver Water Board's water rights are senior to whatever water rights'
this board requires.

Back to the agreement--under Section 1, the Denver Water Board agrees
to make certain minimum bypasses on the" decrees. These bypasses and
other recommended appropriations are extracted in the attached three
pages.

On Bobtail, the Denver Water Board agrees to bypass one cubic foot
per second during the summer season, which is May 15 through August..
From Steelman Creek, the Denver Water Board also agrees to bypass one
second foot, and that is the same period. These streams are presently,
through their existing system, completely dried up.

On the Middle Fork, the Denver Water Board agrees to operate its
diversion system so that flows at two second feet summer and one second
foot winter are maintained at a point relatively low on the drainage,
but that point is the point where the fishery begins. So from the
standpoint of the Middle Fork, it is a good flow. The Division of
Wildlife would probably agree with all these numbers on the bypass..

On Short Creek, on the South Fork, the Denver Water Board agrees to by-
pass or operate the diversion: structures so that we have a flow of five
second feet in summer, .two and a half second feet in winter.

To repeat, the Denver Water Board agrees to operate its diversion
structures to provide a flow at the confluence of the South Fork with
Short Creek of five second feet summer, two and a half second feet
winter.

In addition.to that, another flow control is provided of four second
feet in the summer, two second feet winter on the South Fork a distance
of seven-tenths of a mile upstream from the confluence of Short Creek.

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On Darling Creek, the Denver Water Board agrees to operate its diver-
sion structures so that a flow of three second feet in summer and
two second feet in winter is provided at the U.S..G.S. Gauging Station.
That gauging station, again, roughly corresponds to the beginning of
the fishery on Darling Creek..

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