Water Rights: Laws, Guns, & Money

Platte River
•Man controlled ditch
•Road trips
Denver Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant
•Aurora’s Prairie Water Projects
•West slope water into the Platte
•Increased flows
•Ownership of fully consumable water

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The American peoples
Farms/Cities tug of war
•Interconnections
•Stretching water
Intercity competition
•Why farming in Colorado
•Environmental Delays

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Round table meetings
Thornton – last major buy and dry
•Water quality – TSS and TDS
•Thornton’s quality deteriorating
•1041 powers – opposition
Consumptive Use
•Farm consumptive use – statewide
•City Consumptive use  - comparison

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Two Forks denial – cities on their own
•Kiowa project – an exchange
•Raising money – the Golden Rule
•Wellington Webb mayoral decision
Defining Consumptive Use
•Buy and dry
•Opposition to buy and dry

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Description of my experience
•Cow troughs to Glacier water
•Bad actors – Good actors
Choices for more water
•Damming water – Two Forks denial
•No new diversions
•Reallocation of water

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First in time, first in right

·        Miner example

·        Early farmers examples

Initial Priority Administration

·        Theft of water - Gunplay

·        Court Involvement

·        First water rights established

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