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Stream: East Middle Fork Parachute Creek Seqment: Confluence Northwater and Trapper Creeks to Corral Gulch Executive Summary Upper Terminus: Confluence Nonh\l/ater and Trapper Creeks (Latitude 390 37' 20") (Longitude 1080 (X)" 42") Lo\\'cr Terminus: Corral Gulch (Latitude 390 37' 11") (Longitude 108002' 22'") Counties: Garfield Length: 1,7 r'>lilcs USGS Quad(s): Forked Gulch Flow Recommendation: 5.7 cfs (April IS - June 30) 1.6 cfs (July 1 - August 31) 0.9 cfs (September 1 - October 14) 0.5 cfs (October 15 - I\.-tarch J..J) 1.0 cfs (March 15 - April 14) Summary The information contained in this report and the associated instream Ilow file folder for the East Middle Fork of Parachute Creek form>; the basis for staffs instream flow recommendation to be considered by the Board, It is slaffs opinion that the information contained is this report is sufficient to support the findings required in Rule 5.40. Colorado's Instream Flow Program was created in 1973 when the Colorado State Legislature recognized ."the need to correlate the activities of mankind with some reasonable preservation of the natural environment" (see * 37.92-102 (3) C.R.S.). The statue vests the CWCB with the exclusive to appropriate and acquire instream tlow and natural lake-level water rights. In order to encourage other entilies to participate in Colorado's Instream Flo\'.' Program. the statue directs the CWCB to request instream flow recommendations from other slate and federal agencies. The Bureau of Land Management (BL~l) recommended Ihis segmcnt of East t\.1iddle Fork Parachute Creek to the CWCB for inclusion into the Instream Flow Program. East Middle Fork Parachute Creek is being considered for inclusion into the Instream Flow Program because it has a natural environment Ihat can be preserved 10 a reasonable degree wilh an instream now watcr righl. The BLM is very interested in protecting the streamtlows in this area because in November of 1997, Ihe U.S. Congress transferred management of the Navel Oil Shale Reserve from the Department of Energy 10 Ihe BLM. Congress direcled the BLl\1 to manage the area for multiple uses. while simultaneously protecting thc area's unique resource values. East ~1iddle Fork Parachute Creek is a tributary of Parachute Creck and is appro:w.:imately 5.4 miles long, It hegins \Vest of the Roan Cliffs. al an elevalion of approximalely 7.980 feet. and terminates at the confluence wilh the Middle Fork Parachute Creek. at an elevation of approximately 6,200 feet. II flows Ihrough federal lands (Naval Oil Shale Reserve which is managed by the Bureau of Land ~lanagement) and private lands. h is localed in Garfield County, The total drainage area of East Middle Fork of Parachute Creek is approximately _ square miles, East Middle Fork of Parachute Creek generally nows in an East to Southwest d irecl ion.