ISFAPP00441

• Case Number: 80CW0388
• Stream Name: Deer Creek
• Watershed: Gunnison River
• Water Division: 4
• Water District: 62
• County: Hinsdale
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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MAY 2 1 1981

THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR

Filed In T11'.) District Court
Wa~t:r Div~sicn Four '

WATE~ DIVISION NO. 4

A~R 1719B1

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Kay Fhil!ips. Clerk

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STATE OF COLORADO

Case No. 80CW388

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION )
FOR WATER RIGHTS OF THE COLORADO )
WATER CONSERVATION BOARD ON BEHALF ) RULING OF ,WATER REFEREE
OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO,)
IN THE GUNNISON RIVER: IN HINSDALE )
COUNTY' )

The ~pplicant, The Colorado Water Conservation Board c/o
Connie L4 Peterson, Assistant Attorney General, 1525 Sherman
Street, Denver, CO 80203. requests a water~ight to protect
the natural environment. 'Filed: November 13, 1980

No opposition'has been filed.

FINDING OF FACT

The DEER CREEK is a natural stream, tributary to the
Gunnison River in Hinsdale County and in old \,ater District
No. 62.

Legal description of beginning and end points of minimum
stream flow claimed: The natural stream channel from headwaters
in vicinity of lat 38001'40" north long 10701J'52" west as the
upstream terminus ,and conn Mill Creek lat 38 01' 21" north long
107010'26" west as the downstream terminus, being a distance of
approximately 3.4 miles. This segment cah be located on the
Cannibal Plateau U.S.O.S. quadrangle. '

Date of initIation of appropriation: September 9, 1980,
by final approval of the Colorado Water Conservation Board at
its general meeting.

Amount of water claimed: (S - May 1 through September 30;
October 1 through April 30)
A. (Stream only) Flow in C.F.S.: 1.5 cfs.

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This appropriation is made pursuant to the provisions of
C.R.S. 1973, 37-92-102(3) and 37-92-103(3)(4) and (10) known
as Senate bill 97. The purpose of this appropriation by the
state of Colorado is to insure the preservation of a minimum
stream level to protect the natural environment to a reaonable
degree.

R U L I N G

, IT IS THE RULING OF THE REFEREE that hO adverse effect can
be determined and that DEER CREEK, as above described, is APPROVED
AND GRANTED AN ABSOLUTE IN PLACE DECREE ih the amount of 1.5
c.f.s. of water when and if it is available in the natural
fIe"l,' for the purposes of protecting the natural environment
thereof. As of the date of appropriation, September 9, 1980.

DATED

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E.L. HILSON

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