ISFAPP00504

• Case Number: 94CW0047
• Stream Name: North Clear Creek
• Watershed: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Water District: 20
• County: Hinsdale
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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No. 94CW047
Colorado Water Cons. Board

3. The source of the water is:

North Clear Creek, tributary to Clear Creek, tributary
to the Rio Grande.

4. Legal description of the stream segment through which
an instream flow is claimed.

The natural stream channel from the headwa-
ters in the vicinity of latitude 37048'52"N
and longitude 107019'22"W as the upstream
terminus and extending to the U.S.F.S Bound-
ary in the NW/4 SW/4, Sec. 11, T41N, R4W,
N.M.P.M., as the downstream terminus, being a
distance of approximately 2.3 miles. This
segment can be located on the Finger Mesa
U.S.G.S. quadrangle.

For the stream segments in an unsurveyed area, the
Division Engineer has determined for administrative
purposes that the approximate legal description of the
instream flow termini as protracted from U.S.G.S.
and/or U.S.F.S mapping is as follows: upstream termi-
nus in the NE/4 NE/4, Sec. 17, T41N, R4W, N.M.P.M.

5. Use of the water:

Instream flow to preserve the natural environment to a
reasonable degree.

6. Date of initiation of appropriation:

March 9, 1994.

7. The water was first applied to the above beneficial use
on March 9, 1994, by action of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board under the provision of C.R.S. (1990) ~~ 37-92-102(3),
37-92-103 (3), (4), and (10).

8. Amount of water claimed (ABSOLUTE):
3.5 c.f.s. (April 1 - October 31); 1.0 c.f.s.
31) .

Instream flow of
(November 1 - March

THE WATER REFEREE RULES:

The application is granted and a decree (ABSOLUTE) for 3.5
c.f.s. (April 1 - October 31); 1.0 c.f.s. (November 1 - March 31)
is entered to preserve the natural environment to a reasonable
degree through the upstream and downstream points as described in

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