ISFAPP00500

• Case Number: 89CW0200
• Stream Name: Big Thompson River
• Watershed: Big Thompson River
• Water Division: 1
• Water District: 4
• County: Larimer
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

89CW200
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4. Legal description of the upstream and downstream points of
minimum stream flow reach claimed:

Legal description of the stream segment through
which an instream flow is claimed: The natural
stream channel from the confluence with Dry
Gulch in the NW/4, NE/4, sec. 29, T5N, R72W,
6th P.M. as the upstream terminus and extending
to the confluence with the North Fork Big
Thompson River at latitude 40025'56" North and
longitude 105020'18~ We~t as the downstream
terminus being a distance of approximately 11.9
miles. This segment can be located on the Glen
Haven, Panorama Peak, and Drake U.S.G.S.
quadrangles.

Administration: For the stream segment in an
unsurveyed area, the Division Engineer has de-
termined for administrative purposes that the
approximate legal description of the instream
flow termini as protracted from U.S.G.S. map-
ping is as follows: upstream terminus in the
NW/4, NE/4, section 29, T5N, R72W, 6th P.M.;
downstream terminus in the NE/4, NW/4, section
3, T5N, R71W, 6th P.M.

5. Use of the water:

Instream flows to preserve 'the natural environment to a
reasonable degree.

6. Date of initiation of appropriation:

November 14, 1989

7. The water was first applied to the above beneficial use on
November 14, 1989 by action of the Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board under the provisions of C.R.S. 37-92-102(3),
37-92-103(3), (4), (10).

8. Amount of water claimed:

40.0 c.f.s. (May 1 through Oct. 31); 15.0 c.f.s. (Nov. 1
through April 30), all absolute.

9. The Referee rules that this application should be granted
and an absolute decree for 40.0 c.f.s. (May 1 through Oct.
31) and 15.0 c.f.s. (Nov. 1 through April 30), is hereby
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