ISFAPP01364

• Case Number: 80CW0383
• Stream Name: West Fork Cebolla Creek
• Watershed: Gunnison River
• Water Division: 4
• Water District: 62
• County: Hinsdale
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Final Decree/Stipulations

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"11 IN ~HE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR

MP.Y 2 1 1981 J WATER DIVISION NO. 4

c STATE OF COLORADO
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CONSERVATION BOARD 8 8
Case No. OCW3 3

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION )
FOR WATER RIGHTS OF THE COLORADO )
WATER CONSERVATION BOARD ON ) RULING OF WATER REFEREE
BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE )
OF COLORADO, IN THE GUNNISON RIVER:)
IN HINSDALE COUNTY )

Filed In Tho Dist:ict Court
Ware!' Div:sic;1 Four

APR 171981

Kay Phillips. Clerk

The applicant, The Colorado Water Conservation Board c/o
Connie L,. Peterson, Assistant Attorney General, 1525 Sherman
Street;~enver, CO 80203, requests a water right to protect
the natural environment. Filed: November 13, 1980

No opposition. has been filed.

FINDING OF FACT

The WEST FORK CEBOLLA CREEK is a natural stream, tributary to
the Gunnison River in Hinsdale County and in old Water District
No. 62.

Legal description of beginning and end points of minimum
st~eam flow claimed:. The natural stream channel from headwaters
in vicinity of lat 37056'00" north long 107014'51" west as the
upstream terminus and confl East Fork CebolIa Creek lat 37058' 01"
north long 107009'58" west as the downstream terminus, being
a distance of approximately 6.0 miles. This segment can be
located on the Bristol Head 15' U.S.G.S. quadrangle.

Date of initiation of appropriation: September 9, 1980,
by final approval of the Colorado Water Conservation Board at
its general meeting.

Amount of water claimed: (S - May.l through September 30;
W - October 1 through April 30)
A. (Stream. only) Flow in C.F.S.: 2 cfs.

This appropriation is made pursuant to the provisions of
C.R.S. 1973, 37-92-102(3) and 37-92-103(3)(4) and (10) known as
Senate bill 97. The purpose of this appropriation by the state
of Colorado is to insure the preservation of a minimum stream
level.to protect the natural environment to a reasonable degree.

RULING

IT IS THE RULING OF THE REFEREE that no adverse effect can
be determined and that WEST FORK CEBOLLA CREEK, as above described
is APPROVED AND GRANTED AN ABSOLUTE IN PLACE DECREE in the amount
of 2.0 c.f.s. of water when and if it is available in the natural
flow, for the purposes of protecting the natural environment
thereof. As of the date of appropriation, September 9, 1980.

DATED J/-/ '7 -' f.L.~

E. L. WILSON

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