ISFAPP01022

• Case Number: 94CW0040
• Stream Name: Big Spring Creek
• Watershed: Closed Basin
• Water Division: 3
• Water District: 35
• County: Saguache
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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No. 94CWQ40
Colorado Water Cons. Board

3. The source of the water is:

Big Spring Creek, tributary to the Closed Basin.

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

The natural stream channel from the outlet of
Indian Spring in the vicinity of latitude
3704S'S9"N and longitude 10S037'31"W as the
upstream terminus and extending one and four
tenths (1.4) miles down stream from Indian
Spring to a point located at latitude 3704S'-
14"N and longitude 10S038'27"W said point
being the downstream terminis. This segment
can be located on the Sand Camp 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 NW/4 NE/4, Sec. 3S, T41N, R12E, N.M.P.M.;
downstream terminus in the SW/4 SE/4, Sec. 34, T41N,
Rl:2E, N.M.P.M.

S. Use of the water:

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

6. Date of initiation of appropriation:

November 3, 1994.

7. The water was first applied to the above beneficial use
on November 3, 1994, by action of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board under the provisions of c. R. S. (1990) 1l!; 37 - 92-102 (3) ,
37- 92-103 (3), (4), and (10).

8. Amount of water claimed (ABSOLUTE): Instream flow of
4.0 c.Ls.

THE WATER REFEREE RULES:

The application is granted and a decree (ABSOLUTE) in the
amount of 4.0 c.f.s. is entered to preserve the natural environ-
ment to a reasonable degree through the upstream and downstream

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