WSP08363

• File Number: 8240.200.30.C
• Description: UCRBRIP Conditional Water Rights
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 6/1/1987
• Author: The Nature Conservan
• Title: Converting Conditional Water Rights to Instream Flow Protection: A Property Transfer Strategy
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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JUL 23 1986
COLORADO f1lVER WATER
CONSERVATION DISTRICT
COLORADO

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DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION NO.5, STATE OF

Action No. 84 CW 70

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ORDER

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IN THE HATTER OF THE APP.LICATION FOR WATER RIGHTS OF:

THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, THE BASALT
WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT, THE WEST DIVIDE WATER CONSERVANCY
DISTRICT, THE MIDD1.E PARK WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT, AND THE
WATER USERS ASSOCIATION NO. 1 IN THE COLORADO RIVER WATER
CONSERVATION DISTRICT, in Grand, Routt, MOffat, Eagle, Pitkin,
Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa, and Gunnison Counties, Colorado.

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This matter came before the Court on the Applicant's Second
Motion in Limine filed on May 5, 1986.

This is.an application for a finding of quadrennial diligence.
The Applicant requests an order determining that C.R.S. 37-92-305(9) (b)
has no application to a diligence proceeding.

That statute provides:

"No claim for a conditional water right may be recognized
or a decree therefore granted except to the extent that
it is established that the water can be and will be
diverted, stored, .or otherwise captured, possessed' and
controlled and will be beneficially used and that the
project can and will be completed with diligence and
wi thin a reasonable time."

The Applicant argues that the Colorado Supreme Court in
Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District v. City of Florence,
688 P2d 715 (Colo. 1984 I determined that C. R.S. 37-92-305 (9 I (b)
applies only to proceedings on an applicationfor.a"conditional

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