ISFAPP00567

• Case Number: 87CW0270
• Stream Name: Cache la Poudre River
• Watershed: Cache la Poudre
• Water Division: 1
• Water District: 3
• County: Larimer
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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Colo. Water Conservation Board

Cache la poudre River

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

The natural stream channel from the confluence with
La poudre Pass Creek in the NE/4 NE/4 S. 1 T6N R75W ~
6th P.M. as the upstream terminus and extending to
the confluence with Joe Wright Creek at lat. 40 deg.
38'12"N long. 105 deg. 48'23"W as the downstream ter-
minus being a distance of approximately 9.8 miles.
This segment can be located on the Comanche Peak,
Chambers Lake, and Boston Peak U.S.G.S.
quadrangle(s).

Administration: For the stream segment(s) 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. mapping is as follows:
downstream terminus in the NE/4 S. 28 T8N R75W 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:

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December 11, 1987

7. The water was first applied to the above beneficial
use on December 11, 1987 by action of the Colorado Water Conser-
vation Board under the provisions of C.R.S. 37-92-102(3),
37-92-103(3), (4), (10).

8. Amount of water claimed:

32.0 c.f.s. (April 1 through Oct. 31); 16.0 c.f.s. /'
(Nov. 1 through March 31), all absolute.

The Referee rules that this application should be granted
-~.,__and an absolute decree for 32.0 c.f.s. (April 1 through Oct. 31)
and 16.0 c.f.s. (Nov. 1 through March 32), is hereby awarded for
the purpose of maintaining an instream flow to preserve the natu-
ral environment to a reasonable degree on Cache la poudre River
between the upstream and downstream points as described in para-

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