ISFAPP01058

• Case Number: 89CW0206
• Stream Name: Big Thompson River
• Watershed: Big Thompson River
• Water Division: 1
• Water District: 4
• County: Larimer
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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

Legal description of the stream segment through
which an instream flow is claimed: The natural
stream channel from the juncture with the
Loveland powerplant outfall at latitude
40025'13" North and longitude 105016'52" West
as the upstream terminus and extending to the
juncture with the Dille Tunnel diversion at
latitude 40025'06" North and longitude
105014'36" West as the downstream terminus be-
ing a distance of approximately 2.5 miles.
This segment can be located on the Drake and
Masonville U.S.G.S. quadrangles.

Administration: For the stream segment in an
unsurveyed area, the Division Engineer has de-
termined for administrative purposes that the
approximate legal description of the instream.
flow termini as protracted from U.S.G.S. map-
ping is as follows: upstream terminus in the
NE/4, NE/4, section 7, T5N, R70W, 6th P.M.;
downstream terminus in the NE/4, NE/4, section
9, T5N, R70W, 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:

November 14, 1989

7. The water was first applied to the above beneficial use on
November 14, 1989 by action of the Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board under the provisions of C.R.S. 37-92-102(3),
37-92-103(3), (4), (10).

8. Amount of water claimed:

50.0 c.f.s. (May 1 through Oct. 31); 20.0 c.f.s. (Nov. 1
through April 30), all absolute.

9. The Referee rules that this application should be granted
and an absolute decree for 50.0 c.f.s. (May 1 through Oct.

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