ISFAPP00705

• Case Number: 80CW0318
• Stream Name: Three Forks Creek
• Watershed: Rifle Creek
• Water Division: 5
• Water District: 39
• County: Garfield
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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FOR WATER DIVISION NO. 5-

S'I'l\'1'E OF COLOH1\DO

Applicatioll No. BOCW318

IN 'l'JlE MJ\T']'EH OF TIlE APPLTCl\.crrON
POH \.JATEH RICllTS 01" 'TilE COLORl\DO
\vNI'EH CONSEHVA1'ION BOARD ON BEHALF
OF' TilE PEOPLE OF TIlE STI\'1'E OF
COI,OHADO, IN 'l'ljE COLORADO m:vm<
OP ITS 'T'IUBUI\'rHTES
TRIBUTARY INVOLVED: 'l'lIREE FOR/(S
CRgEI<, IN GARFIELD COUNTY

RULING OF REFEREE

The ahovl~ eIlti,tled Application WflS filed on August 19, 1980,

and was refer r(:.'tl to the unc1Grs i gned as ~\la tar Heferee for Water

f)ivi.~:don No. :i, Sl<ltc of ColoJ"ado, hy t1w it\latcl~ ,Tudgl: of said Court

on the 15th (1-11 of September-, 1.9BO, and nq[Jin, after withdrawal of

opposition, on !\ll(Jl1St 7, .1.981, in accordance with Article 92 of

Chapter 37, C010r..;<30 Revised Statutes 1971, known as 'fhe Water

rU.qht Dotermin(1t,inn ,lm1 1\r1mlni.str,ltion'1\ct of 1969.

And t:he undcl:si(Jnecl R{~fer.ee having made such investigations as

an~ necessury to dot(~rminc \.Jlwther or not the statements in the

appJ.icCltion are tr\lC an.] Ililvinq become fully advised with respect

to the subject I\lutter of 1:he application does hereby make the

follo\'JinlJ determinatioll and rulinq as the Referee in this mat-ter,

to-'wi t:

1. The statements in the appJ.ic'--ltion (Ire true.

2. 'fhe n<1TI\e of thE~ stream involveC! is: 'fhree Parks Creek.

3. ThE.! n<lme of the cL:d.mant and ac'ldress is: 'rhe Colorado
Water Conservation Board; 821 St~te Centennial Building; 1313
Sherman Street.; Denver, Color,](]o,

4. 'J'he source of r.hc w,ltet is 'f'hres pod:s Creek, tributary
to East Rifle Creek, tributary to Ri.fle Creek, tri.butary to -the
Colorado River.

5" DescriPtion of beginninq an(1 end points of minimum stream
flow claimed: tlle r.atural strc,lr.t channel from its headwaters at
Lat. 39047'07" N.; Long. ].07045'37" W. as the upstream terminus,
and its confluence with East Rifle Creek at Lat. 390451 37" N.;
Long'". 107041129 ,f W. as the downstream t.erminus.

6" The llse of th(~ wa.ter is to appropriate such minimum
stream flows as are required to preserve the natural environment
to a reasonable degrce.

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