PUB00100

• Year: 1992
• Title: An Analysis of Water Salvage Issues in Colorado
• Author: CWCB
• Description: An Analysis of Water Salvage Issues in Colorado
• Publications - Doc Type: Water Resource Studies

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their location, selected comments from affected government
agencies and objectors, and recommendations relating to the
affirmation of salvaged water, Such reports shall be
submitted by December 31, 1984, and June 30, 1985,
SECTION 2, 37-82-104, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
amended to read:
37-82-104. Not to impair vested riqhts, Nothing in
sections 37-82-103 to 37-82-105 OR SECTION 37-82-107 shall be
construed to amend or repeal section 37-82-102; or impair,
diminish, or destroy any valid appropriation of water for any
beneficial use which has been made or decreed in accordance
with law; or modify, amend, or affect any decree of court or
the statutes limiting the time wherein appropriators must
appear for determination of priorities of right for diversions
from natural streams or the decisions of the courts construing
the statutes,

SECTION 3, 37-82-106,

Colorado Revised Statutes, as

amended, is amended to read:

37-82-106, Riqht to reuse of imported water,

(1) Whenever an appropriator has lawfully INTRODUCED SALVAGED

WATER INTO A STREAM SYSTEM OR HAS introduced foreign water

into a stream system from an unconnected stream system, such

appropriator may make a succession of uses of such water by

exchange or otherwise to the extent that its volume can be

distinguished from the volume of the streams into which it is

introduced, Nothing in this section shall be construed to

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