Parker tries to repair an old car
•Rueter-Hess reservoir
•Joins SMWSA and gets surface rights
•Complicated water modeling
Thornton must act
•Long time coming
•Little used State statute to the rescue
•Let’s simplify 

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Will be back by July 4
Have a good holiday
Yeah America!

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Denver Basin Aquifers
·        Geologically trapped water
·        300 million acre-feet
·        Artesian conditions fade
Explosive Growth
·        The fizz is off
·        Rush to renewable
·        South Metro Water Supply Authority

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CBT Water
·        Once through like other rights
·        Huge advantage for buyers
·        Benchmark pricing
Other Sources
·        Accounting for water in river
·        Non-tributary groundwater

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Halliburton leading the way
·        English versus metric system
·        Breakover point in providing water
Birth of a new company
·        Water Supply, LLC
·        Shame on Division of Water Resources
·        Need for changes

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Why Grand County was raided
·        Three rivers
·        Growth in the early days
·        The railroad comes to town
Denver Explodes
·        Drought exacerbates need
·        Ready built tunnel

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Episode 10
ACROSS THE DIVIDE, COLORADO RIVER COMPACT
Colorado at the top of the Divide
·        Four rivers start here
·        Doctrine of prior appropriation creates fear
Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution
·        Colorado River Compact
·        Split agreement
·        New thinking

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Start of ditches and enlargements
·        Cooperation
·        Multiple decrees
·        River commissioner impossible task
City evaluation of water rights
·        Apparent winner
·        Unit of exchange
·        Consumptive use

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Tribulations of NISP
·        Unintended consequences
·        Participants
·        Change in plans
Dust Bowl Days
·        Formation of Northern Water
·        CBT shares

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Diversion Structures
•Burlington headgate
•Out of sight, out of mind
Speculation 
•Land
•Not water
•Homestead Act

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