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the summer because Mr. Manes feels that its affect on the stream is negligible due to the small area ircigated and low streamflow. The locations of J.C. Temple Ditch No. 2, Dry Creek Ditch, Dry Creek Diversion, and Hollatz Ditch are shown in Plate I. A number of springs and wells are decreed for stock water and domestic purposes in the Dry Creek basin. Mr. Manes said that he does not administer or record diversions by springs and wells with diversion rates equal to or Less than 0.033 cfs ~ 15 gpm). The storage of water in Pond 006 during the irrigation season, May through September, could reduce the water available to the downstream ditches. Water could be stored in Pond 006 without impacting the downstream ditches during the non-irrigation season and during times when the ditches are diverting at their decreed diversion rates. If the streamflow is insufficient to meet the decreed diversion rates of the downstream ditches and the administration of junior water rights is requested, the reduction in streamflow caused by Pond 006 will have to be replaced by another water source. Sage Creek The Sage Creek Ditch and the Sage Creek Reservoir Outlet Ditch are the two active irrigation ditches on Sage Creek. Because both of these ditches are located downstream from the outcrops of the Trout Creek Sandstone formation, the pumpage from WeII No. I may reduce the streamflow available to the two ditches during the irrigation season. Other diversion and storage structures on Sage Creek have decreed water rights; however, they have been washed out or breached, or are no longer used. The Sage Creek Ditch has a decreed capacity of 1.7 cfs and has the most senior water right on Sage Creek. The original point of diversion was located near the Twenty Mile Road bridge. In 1922, the water rights for the J.B. Dawson Ditch, 4.0 cfs, and the Earl Wilkins Ditch, 3.0 cfs, were transferred to the diversion point for the Sage Creek Ditch. In 1960, the water right for the Sage Creek Ditch, 1.7 cfs, was transferred downstream to a point where the Marshall Roberts D'+tch crosses Sage Creek. The decree in this case states that the use of the new point of diversion began in 1927. The Marshall Roberts Ditch diverts water from the Yampa River about I mile upstream from the mouth of Soge Creek. During the field investigations with Mr. Manes on June 23, 1988, it was noted that a pumping plant on the Marshall Roberts Ditch supplies water to most of the area previously irrigated from Sage Creek. Also, the original diversion point for the Sage Creek Ditch has washed out and has not been used for a number of years. The point of diversion for the Sage Creek Reservoir Outlet Ditch is located on the west bank of Sage Creek in the SEYo of Section 35, Township 6 North, Range 88 West at 6