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The Pueblo Chieftain Online I Tuesday <br />Weather <br />W I , <br />Current Temp: 23 <br />Extended Forecast <br />Tuesday <br />April 04, 2000 <br />DEPARTMENTS: <br />News <br />Sports <br />Business <br />Lifestyle <br />Editorial <br />Classified <br />Daily Crossword <br />Comics <br />TV Listings <br />Weather <br />RECENTISSUES: <br />Monday <br />Tuesday <br />Wednesday <br />Thursday <br />Friday <br />Saturday <br />Sunday <br />ABOUT PUEBLO: <br />Business Directory <br />City Guide <br />Chamber of Commerce <br />Riverwalk <br />Pueblo Convention Center <br />*New *Virtual Tours <br />SERVICES: <br />Contact Us <br />Subscribe <br />Advertising& <br />Web Development <br />Coupons <br />Active Channel <br />About this site <br />Career <br />Opportunities <br />The at"n <br />132nd year...and still on the job. <br />Make The Pueblo Chieftain Online your Homepage. <br />Page 1 of 4 <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />Open a Doo am-10 <br />W0460 IMWY <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />TUESDAY <br />Rocky Ford Ditch sale <br />questioned <br />By LORETTA SWORD <br />The Pueblo Chieftain <br />The Pueblo Board of Water Works soon may <br />join a lengthy list of objectors to water -court <br />applications filed by the city of Aurora, which <br />hopes to buy the majority of outstanding shares <br />in the Rocky Ford Ditch. <br />Although the water board has a contract with <br />Aurora that helps that city move water acquired <br />when it bought half of the Rocky Ford Ditch <br />more than a decade ago, water works officials <br />are concerned about how Aurora's new decrees,' <br />if granted, would affect Pueblo's own exchange <br />and transfer rights on the Arkansas River. <br />The ditch sale is contingent on Aurora winning <br />new decrees in Division 2 water court. Aurora's <br />application seeks a decree to change use of the <br />water from agricultural to municipal. <br />The other applications seek decrees to change <br />EVENTS & ACTIVITIES: <br />the point of diversion for 5,000 -6,000 acre -feet <br />State Fair <br />Active Years <br />of water Aurora estimates it will gain in the sale, <br />Winterfest'99 <br />as well as the right to exchange that water for ar <br />Guidebook '00 <br />Spring Runoff '00 <br />equal amount far upstream. <br />Search <br />Chieftain.com <br />$�arrah: <br />Click Here to search <br />the Archives <br />Tram "tlon <br />n Infovnts <br />PYJ wo <br />MOV►iEQUEsr, <br />(b <br />TVQUEST <br />http: / /www. chieftain .com /tuesday /news /display.php3 ?article =l 04/04/2000 <br />