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<br />rJ/~ <br />I) <br /> <br />D,~. <br />n."~P'l' . <br />~'i..:.~~".;', <br /> <br />CILIBERTO & ASSOCIATES, LLC <br />Attorneys and Counselors at Law <br /> <br />,:ilN 2. 2aG5 <br />CO/Ota..J <br />-'IOWa/err: <br />...onse.....,"~ <br />, ~~~!: "(i :;".~. <br /> <br />Areas of concentration include <br />water, environmental, land use <br />and related litigation <br /> <br />January 21,2005 <br /> <br />Colorado Water Coriservation Board <br />c/o Patrick E. Kowaleski, Esq. <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 721 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />Via Fax (303-866-3558) & U.S. Mail <br /> <br />Re: Chatfield Reservoir Storage Space Reallocation - <br />Mount Carbon Metropolit~ District <br /> <br />. l., <br />Dear Mr. ,Kowaleski: <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />. . .' <br />Mount Carbon Metropolitan District ("Mount Carbon") respe~tfully requests the <br />Colorado Water ConservationBoard ("Board")to reject the Chatfield Reservoir Water <br />Users Subcommittee's reallocation proposal. It is flawed due to the fact it does not <br />include the water rights of the Mount Carbon. <br /> <br />Mount Carbon has a 1985 decreed conditional water storage right for 800 acre-feet <br />in Chatfield Reservoir, (District Court, Water Division No.1, Case No. 85CW463), and <br />has timely adjudicated diligence appliclltions (Case Nos. 94CW107 and 03CW269.) The <br />Water Users Subcommittee has not included Mount Carbon's 800 acre-feet in its <br />reallocation proposal to the Board. <br /> <br />Mount Carbon has vigorously defended the subject water rights in all matters. As <br />this Board may be aware, the Colorado Supreme Court has recognized a decreed water <br />right as a special type of property right. Navaio Development Co.. Inc. v. Sanderson, 655 <br />P.2d 1374 (Colo. 1982). Water rights are. protected by Colorado'.s Constitution, such that <br />they cannot be taken away without due process of law: Nichols v. McIntosh, 34 P.278 <br />(Colo. 1893).. Furthermore, the Colorado Revised Statutes recognize the importance of <br />water rights, providing that the conveyance of water rights "shall be observed and <br />complied with as in the conveyancel?freal estate." S38-30-l-2, C.R.S. <br /> <br />Lincoln Center, 1660 Lincoln Street, Suite 1700, Den"er, Colorado 80264 <br />(303) 861-4300. Fax (303) 861-4333 <br />