ISFAPP01119

• Case Number: 94CW0053
• Stream Name: Woodfern Creek
• Watershed: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Water District: 20
• County: Mineral
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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No. 94CW053
Colorado Water Cons. Board

3. The source of the water is:

Woodfern 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 headwaters
in the vicinity of latitude 37042'16"N and longitude
107007'41"W as the upstream terminus and extending to
the Woodfern Ditch headgate in the NW/4 NW/4, See 15,
T40N, R2W, N.M.P.M. as the downstream terminus, being a
distance of approximately 3.3 miles. This segment can
be located on the Little Squaw Creek and Workman Creek
U.S,G.S. quadrangles.

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 SE/4 SE/4, Sec. 19, T40N, R2W, N.M.P.M.

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 water was first applied to the above beneficial use
on March 9, 1994, by action of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board under the provisions of C.R.S. (1990) ~~ 37-92-102(3),
37-92-103 (3), (4), and (10),

8, Amount of water claimed (ABSOLUTE): Instream flow of
2.25 c.Ls. (May 1 - June 30); 1.25 c,Ls. (July 1 - August 31);
0.40 c.Ls. (September 1 - April 15); 1.25 c.Ls. (April 16 -
April 30).

THE WATER REFEREE RULES:

The application is granted and a decree (ABSOLUTE) in the
amount of 2.25 c.Ls, (May 1 - June 30; 1.25 c.Ls, (July 1 -
August 31); 0.40 c.Ls. (September 1 - April 15); 1.25 c.Ls.
(April 16 - April 30) is entered to preserve the natural environ-

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