PUB00056

• Year: 2001
• Title: Conference Proceedings: 26th Annual Gunnison Water Workshop
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Description: Theme of the conference was Who's in Charge?
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

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LEAVENWORTH & KARP

2. Exchange permits water to be used upstream, so long as the same quantity of
water is provided at a point downstream which will avoid injury to other water
users.

3. Rights of exchange can be decreed and thereby secure a fixed priority for their
operation.

FARM AND RANCH PROPERTIES: EVALUATING WATER RIGHTS

A,

Identification of Water Rights

1. Evaluation begins with identification of all water rights which are pertinent to
the property .

2. The property owner should have some evidence of ownership of the pertinent
water rights:
· Deed
· Decree
· Well permit
· Stock certificate
· Water allotment contract

3, Visual inspection of the property may disclose uses and related rights.

Analysis of Water Rights

1. The current use of water should be compared with the legally authorized use.
For example:
· Is the point of diversion located as decreed?
· Is water being used for its decreed purposes?
· Is the water belli applied to the decreed acreage?

2. The historical use of the water should be determined, particularly if the water
rights will be changed to new points of diversion or new uses,
· The right to change a water right is limited to the time and quantity of
the historic use, no matter if the decreed lI.tI1olU1t is greater.

3, Investigate possible non-use of the water right for abandonro.ent purposes.
· Check Division Engineer abandonment lists.

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