ISFAPP00611

• Case Number: 94CW0057
• Stream Name: Pinos Creek
• Watershed: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Water District: 20
• County: Rio Grande
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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No. 94CWOS7
Colorado Water Cons. Board

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2. The name of the natural stream is:

Pinos Creek (instream tlow) .

3. The source of the water is:

Pinos 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 confluence of
Bennett Creek in the SW/4 SE/4, Sec. 29, T39N, RSE,
N.M.P.M. as the upstream terminus and extending to the
Del Norte Pipeline in the SW/4 NW/4, Sec. 15, T39N,
R5E, N.M.P.M. as the downstream terminus, being a
distance of approximately 3.0 miles. This segment can
be located on I,he Horseshoe Mountain and Indian Head
U.S.G.S. quadrai\gles and is depicted on Exhibit A.
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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 Colorado Water Conservation Board first applied the
water to the above beneficial use on March 9, 1994, under the
provisions of C.R.S. (19~,,) ~~ 37-92-102(3),
37-92-103 (3), (4), and (10).

8. Amount of water claimed (ABSOLUTE): Instream flow of
10.0 c.f.s (April 1 - August 15); 6.0 c.f.s. (August 16 - Novem-
ber 30); 4.50 c.f.s. (December 1 - February 29); 6.0 c.f.s.
(March 1 - March 31) .

9. In Case No. 84CW16, Water Division No.3, the Conserva-
ncy Oistrict .:>btained judicial approval of a plan for augmenta..
tion pursuant to which the Conservancy District delivers transmo-
untain water from the Weminuche Pass Ditch to the Rio Grande to
replace out-of-priority depletions caused by junior well appro-
priators on the Rio Grande.

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