ISFAPP00808

• Case Number: 92CW0175
• Stream Name: Willow Creek
• Watershed: Gunnison River
• Water Division: 4
• Water District: 59
• County: Gunnison
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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92CI<175

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED AND DECREED:

Name and address of claimant
The Colorado Water Conservation Board
1313 Sherman Street, Suite 721
Denver, Colorado 80203

Water Riqht

Name of natural stream: Willow Creek

Location: Legal description of the stream segment
through which an instream flow is claimed: The natural
stream channel from the outlet of Rainbow Lake in the
vicinity of latitude 38"38'03" N and longitude 107010'40"
W as the upstream terminus and extending to the headgate
of the Alfred Ditch at latitude 38030'12" N and longitude
107007'12" W as the downstream terminus, being a distance
of approximately 10.0 miles. This segment can be located
on the West Elk Peak, West Elk Peak SW, and McIntosh
Mountain U.S.G.S, quadrangles.

Administration: 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 D.S.F.S mapping is as follows:
upstream terminus in the NW/4, SW/4, NE/4, Section 34,
Township 51 North, Range 3 West N.M.P.M.; downstream
terminus in the NE/4, SE/4, SW/4, Section 18, Township
49 North, Range 2 West, N.M.P.M.

Priority Date: November 9, 1992, provided, however,
that this right shall be junior to all priorities awarded
in cases filed prior to November 9, 1992, and otherwise
junior as provided in section 37-92-306, C.R.S. (1973)

Amount of water: (ABSOLUTE) Instream flow of 1.5
c,f.s. (May 1 - September 30); 0.75 c.f.s. (October 1 -
April 30)

Use of Water: to maintain such minimum flows as are
required to preserve the natural environment to a
reasonable degree pursuant to sections 37-92-102(3) and
37-92-103(3), (4) and (10), C.R.S. (1990).