6-95CW150 Steamboat Lake Decree (2)

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5, The Co-applicants seek a decree approving a change of water right for the following described water storage right: a. Name of reservoir: Steamboat Lake (1) Date of Decree: July 12, 1990 Case No.: 90-CW-Ol Water Division No.6 (2) Date of appropriation: May 15, 1968. Amount: 3300 acre-feet, absolute. (3) The legal description of the point of diversion: NE/4 NW/4 Section 32, TION, R85W, 6th P.M., at a point from which the Northwest comer of Section 29, TI0N, R85W, bears North 19' West 6,410 feet (4) The source of the water is Willow Creek, a tributary of the Elk River, which is a tributary of the Yampa River. (5) Decreed beneficial uses: Municipal, fishery, recreation, industrial, and irrigation of 1,000 acres located below Steamboat Lake in the Elk and Yampa River drainages. 6. By this Decree, an additional beneficial use is approved for 3,155 acre-feet of the water stored under the priority awarded in Case No. 90CWOl for use for instream flows to preserve the natural environment to a reasonable degree, provided that such additional use will be made and controlled only by the CWCB and that the cumulative amount released during anyone water year comprised of water released pursuant to this decree ("enlargement water"), water released pursuant to the decree in Case No. 95CW163 ("refill water"), or a combination of refill and enlargement water does not exceed 3,155 acre-feet. Storage of water under the new instream flow uses decreed herein shall be administered using an effective appropriation date of December 7, 1995. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 7. The foregoing Findings of Fact are incorporated in these Conclusions of Law. 8. The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of these proceedings and over all who have standing to appear as parties herein, whether they have appeared or not. The Court can approve Co-applicants' requested change in water right pursuant to ~~ 37-92-203 and 37-92-302 to 305, 15 C.R.S. (1990). The procedures of those sections have been fully complied with. 2 '" ., .4i. ',.~...",._~_ _'t --h_;>:;,;,~