WSP08286

• File Number: 8029
• Description: Section D General Correspondence - Colorado Agencies
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 11/18/1960
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Philosophy of Optional Ground Water System for Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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whereupon, an order of Court would be entered either creating the District

or dismissing it. If the order is ente,'ed creating the area of the Division,

then all water users, both surface and ground water, would be bOl1nd by

this Act.
c. In lieu of petitions one could provide in tbe Act for an election;

whereupon, each water user would vote. This may be quicker and less

expe os ive.

2. Provisions Governing Systems Establ1shed.

a. All ground waters within the Division are declared to be the

property of the people of the State of Colorado and subject to appropriatlOn

on the terms and conditions hereinafter contained.

(1) Existing ground water uses shall be protected as to

their priority date, whether decreed or undecreed, if reduced to a decree

as hereinafter provided.

(2) All water, surface and ground, is presuLoed to constitl1te

one common source of supply of the aivision and systerr., and the principle

of "first in time is first in right" shall apply regardless of whether the

waters used are surface or ground waters, save and except as hereinafter

provided.

(3) All wells not holding decreed rights at the time of the

effective date of establishment of the system in the division and all surface

water filings not decreed at such time must each be reduced to a decreed

right within years from the date of the adoption of this system or be

deemed abandoned. Thereafter, application to drill new wells and application

for surface diversions may be made as hereinafter provided.

(a) All existing procedures for the establishment of

surface rights as now provided by law shall be applicable to the establishment

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