WSP05968

• File Number: 8240.200.30.B
• Description: UCRBRIP Instream Flow Approprations
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1996
• Author: CWCB
• Title: CWCB Board Meeting ISF Memos
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

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DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION' 5;' COLORADO
Case No. 9S(',W.:;j1 '

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APPLICATION FOR WATER RIGHTS TO PROTECT THE NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT TO A REASONABLE DEGREE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION FOR WATER RIGHTS OF
THE COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD ON BEHALF OF
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

IN THE COLORADO RIVER, A NATURAL STREAM

IN THE WATERSHED OF THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN

IN MESA COUNTY, COLORADO

1. Name of applicant:
Address of applicant:
. 2. Name of natural stream:
3. Location:

colorado Water Conservation Board

1313 Sherman Street, Suite 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
n03} 866 -3441

colorado River

The legal description of the stream segment through which an
instream flow is claimed: The natural stream channel of the
Colorado River with the' upper terminus being the Grand Valley
Irrigation Company diversion at lat 39 06 06N, long 108 20 53W and
the lower terminus being the confluence of the Gunnison River at
lat 39 03 44N, long 108 34 38W. .This, is'.commonly referred to as
the 15-mile reach. The length of the 'segment is approximately 15
miles and can be located on the Palisade, Clifton, and Grand
Junction U.S.G.S. quadrangles.

4. a.
1995.

Date of initiation of appropriation:

December

13,

b. Date water applied to beneficial use: Water was first
applied to beneficial use on December 13, 1995, pursuant to section
37-92-103 (4), C.R.S. (1990).

c. How appropriation was initiated: By Colorado Water
Conservation Board's approval of the staff's final recommendations
as modified by the Board at the Board:sspecial meeting on December
13; 1995, subsequent to' requesting and considering flow
recommendations from the U.S. Fish and wildlife Service (Service)

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