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<br />ARTICLE UPDATE <br /> <br />SECOND UPDATE TO <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER LAW: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW <br /> <br />THE HONORABLE GREGORY]. HOBBS,jR. <br /> <br />To provide our readers with the most u}Fto--date water law <br />information, the editors periodically include upd.ates of works <br />previously published in the Water Law Review, The following is the <br />second update to Colorado Water Law: An Historicai Overview, Appendix- <br />Colorado Water Law: A Synopsis oj Statutes and Case Law,' selected by The <br />Honorable Gregory J. Hobbs,Jr. <br /> <br />Fa..-mers fr...igh Line Canal & Reservoir Co. v. City of Golden <br /> <br />"[P]rior to the modern trend of implementing express volumetric <br />limitations in decrees, most water rights were quantified by a two-part <br />measurement. First, a decree contained a flow-rate of water, in c.E.s., <br />which the owner was entitled to divert from the stream. Second, a <br />decree stated the use to which that diverted water could be put, such <br />as irrigation of crops or municipal uses." <br />Farmers High Line Canal & Reservoir Co. v. City of Golden, 975 P.2d 189, 197 (Colo. <br />1999) (citation omitted), <br /> <br />"From the late 1800s to the early 1970s, courts primarily employed <br />one standard method in order to protect the vested rights of juniors in <br />change proceedings, Under this method, the court would order the <br />petitioner to abandon a portion of his or her originally decreed flow <br />right back to the stream, This flow abandonment was then <br />incorporated into the express terms of the change decree:' <br />[d. at 197-98 (citation omitted). <br /> <br />"With the advent of improved engineering techniques, courts <br />began to utilize another approach to prevent injury to juniors in <br />change proceedings, Under the modern method, courts now translate <br /> <br />1. Gregory]. Hobbs, Jr., Colorado Water Law: An Historical Overview. 1 U. DENY. <br />WATER L. REv. 1, 27 (1997). The first update to Justice Hobbs' article appears at 2 U. <br />DENY, WATERL. REv, 223 (1999), <br /> <br />III <br />