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quantity of water an appropriator may take, not on the goal that the appropriator is trying to <br />achieve. Few reported cases construe this particular standard. The undersigned amici found a <br />discussion beyond the recitation of the statute in only one reported case, Colorado River Water <br />Conservation District v. Vidler Tunnel Co., 197 Colo. 413, 417, 594 P.2d 566, 568 (1979) <br />(Vidler). There, the Court agreed with the District's challenge to Vidler's appropriation of a <br />"reasonable and appropriate" amount of water on the grounds that Vidler did not have specific <br />enough information about the quantity necessary to meet its intended use. Significantly, neither <br />the District nor the Court suggested that Vidler did not have a valid intent to appropriate for what <br />would be beneficial use; rather, Vidler turned on the fact that the applicant was speculating as to <br />the potential size of its market, had no signed contracts to deliver water and therefore could not <br />demonstrated how much water it would actually put to beneficial use. Id. <br />B. None of the limits that the legislature has imposed on specific beneficial uses <br />applies to Golden's water right. <br />In a few instances, Colorado water- law has limited, by statute, a specific beneficial use. <br />For example, the Colorado Water Conservation Board may only appropriate water for instream <br />use at the "minimum" level to preserve the environment to a "reasonable" degree. §37 -92- <br />102(3), C.R.S. (2001). However, none of these statutory limitations applies to Golden. <br />Therefore, this Court must judge Golden's use as it judges other proposed beneficial uses. And, <br />the rest of Colorado water law does not limit beneficial use other than by the appropriator's acts <br />and purpose. Santa Fe Trail Ranches Property Owners Ass'n v. Simpson, 990 P.2d 46, 53 n.9 <br />(Colo. 1999) (Santa Fe Trail Ranches). Thus, as explained in more detail below, if the <br />appropriator intends to use water to achieve something others believe is unproductive or even <br />