PUB00103

• Year: 1978
• Title: The Colorado Water Study Directions for the Future - Legal Studies
• CWCB Section: Interstate & Federal
• Author: Office of the Executive Director, DNR
• Description: Legal information and data on projected water uses in Colorado and alternatives for future water use and allocation
• Publications - Doc Type: Brochure

6. The Constitutional Convention of 1876.
a. Ownership of the Waters.
b. Prior Appropriation.
c. Preferences in the Use of Water.
d. Right-of-Way.
e. Rates Set by County Commissioners.

B. Administration and Regulation of Water Rights.

1. Formulation of the "Colorado System."
a. The 1879 Act.
b. The 1881 Act.
2. Encouragement and Control of Large-scale
Irrigation Projects.
a. Financing and Management.
b. Transbasin Diversions.
c. Reservoirs.
d. Conditional Rights.
3. Nonirrigation Uses.
4. New Sources of Water: Waste, Seepage, and
Spring Water.
5. Changes in Water Rights: New Points of
Diversion.
6. Adjudication.
7. Administration.
8. Interstate Compacts.
9. 1953 Codification.

C. Ground Water Management.

1. Underground Water Act of 1953.
2. Ground Water Law of 1957.
3. Ground Water Management Act of 1965.
a. Historical Background.
b. Designated Ground Water.
4. Regulation of Nondesignated Ground Water.
a. Colorado Constitution.
b. Whitten v. Coit.
c. Subsequent Case Law.
d. Minimally Tributary Water.
e. Statutory Enactments.

D. 1969 Legislation.

1. Sections of Old Law Repealed.
2. Expanded Duties of'the State Engineer.
3. Water Right Adjudication and Administration.
a. Declared Policies of the 1969 Act.
b. Duties of the State Engineer.

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