WSP05397

• File Number: 8054.100
• Description: Water Salvage - Water Salvage Study - HB 91-1154
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/22/1992
• Author: CWCB
• Title: An Analysis of Water salvage Issues in Colorado - Final and Various Drafts
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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1 their location, selected comments from affected government

2 agencies and objectors, and recommendations relating to the

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affirmation of salvaged water.

Such reports shall

be

4 submitted by December 31, 1984, and June 30, 1985.

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SECTION 2. 37-82-104,. Colorado Revised Statutes, is

6 amended to read:

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37-82-104. Not to impai r vested ri qhts.

Nothing in

8 sections 37-82-103 to 37-82-105 OR SECTION 37-82-107 shall be

9 construed to amend or repeal section 37-82-102; or impair,

10 diminish, or destroy any valid appropriation of water for any
11 beneficial use which has been made or decreed in accordance

12 with law; or modify, amend, or affect any decree of court or

13 the statutes limiting the time wherein appropriators must
14 appear for determination of priorities of right for diversions
15 from natural streams or the decisions of the courts construing

16 the statutes.

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SECTION 3. 37-82-106,

Colorado Revised Statutes, as

18 amended, is amended to read:

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37-82-106. Riqht to

reuse of

imported

water.

20 (1) Whenever an appropriator has lawfully INTRODUCED SALVAGED
21 WATER INTO A STREAM SYSTEM OR HAS introduced foreign water

22 into a stream system from an unconnected stream system, such

23 appropriator may make a succession of uses of such water by

24 exchange or otherwise to the extent that its volume can be

25 distinguished from the volume of the streams into which it is

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