WSP08215

• File Number: 8135.100
• Description: Ditch Companies - Amity Mutual Irrigation Company
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1991
• Author: Amity Mutual
• Title: Annual Report - 1990
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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The Amity Mutual Irrigation Company

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WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the decree in the
certain suit in Bent County, Colorado in which the Fort Lyon
Canal Company was plaint ill and the Amity Mutual Irrigation
Company was defendant, the terms thereof proved that the
rates of division of the expenses should remain at the amounts
fixed by said decree until November 1, 1990 and whereas, no
additional regular meeting of the Stockholders will occur
between now and said decree;
"NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the
Stockholders do hereby authorize it's Board of Directors,
Ollicers and Attorney to take any and all action deemed
necessary or expedient, or refrain from action as may seem
most expedient to them for the interest of the Company and to
ratify and confirm the acts of the Directors, Ollicers and
Attorney in such matters as may be adjusted or determined".
A motion was made to accept by Carl Shinn and seconded
by Jim Rogers. Motion passed.
WHEREAS, Amity Mutual Irrigation Company, after long
discussion and dispute, finally permitted the entry of a decree
permitting the old Model Reservoir Decree to be moved to a
New Bureau of Reclamation Dam constructed on the Purga.
toire River, just above Trinidad, Colorado, in about 1967; and
WHEREAS, since the construction and completion of
Trinidad Dam, the Amity has felt that the operation of the river
at Trinidad has frequently resulted in reduction of flows that
belong in John Martin Reservoir and
WHEREAS, the Purgatoire Conservancy District and City
of Trinidad have each filed objections to these applications,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, that the
Amity continue to oppose these applications and do all within
its lawfui power to see that the Trinidad Reservoir is operated,
in the future, strictly in accord with the decree that Amity
ag reed to in 1967 and
RESOLVED that the Division Engineer, the State Engineer
and the Lawyers representing them be requested to withdraw
their approval of the applications and to join Amity in it's
opposition to the appl ications.

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