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<br />, <br /> <br />, , <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />to come to the county to talk about conditions for <br /> <br /> <br />development of Homestake II, Penver simply says it is a home <br /> <br /> <br />rule city and county, so it need not pay attention to the <br /> <br /> <br />local counties" (Pokorney, 1982, p. 74). The home rule <br /> <br /> <br />provisions were overturned by the U.S. District Court in <br /> <br />Denver v. Robert Bergland [5l7 F.Supp. 1955 (1981)] and by <br /> <br /> <br />the Colorado Supreme Court in City and County of Denver v. <br /> <br /> <br />Board of County Commissioners of Grand County (782 P.2d753 <br /> <br />(1989)) but the antipathy re~ined. <br /> <br />"Not one more drop" and <br /> <br />"DAM the Denver Water Board" ",ere common attitudes of many <br />west slope residents. <br />Three of the major senior users of water in the Colorado <br />basin are the Grand Valley Irrigation Entities, Shoshone <br />Powerplant, and the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (C-BT). <br />The Grand Valley Irrigation entities, located near <br />Grand Junction (the Cameo call), appropriate water on a <br />seasonal basis (2,000cfs, 1910). The Shoshone Powerplant, <br />located in GlenwoodCanyon, operates year-round and calls <br />for 1,250 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water (which forces <br />cessation of diversions by junior users) and is dated 1905.. <br />",~'. <br />Because of these two appropriators, any water right <br />adjudicated after 1910 is subject to call at almost any time. <br />The C-BT project was initiated by the U.S. Congress in 1937 <br />under Senate Document 80 (S.D. 80) for transmountain <br />diversions to the east slope of northern Colorado. Because <br />the adjudication date is after 1910 and. the east slope <br />entities desired a reliable supply of water, reservoirs were <br />