· 6/1/1976
Cache La Poudre Water Users Ass'n v. Glacier View Meadows
Citations
- 550 P.2d 288
- 191 Colo. 53
- 1976 Colo. LEXIS 569
How courts have described this case
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- holding that where senior users can show no injury by the diversion of water, they cannot preclude the beneficial use of water by another
- senior users not injured where water diversion did not displace water “ ‘from the time and place of their need’ ”
- senior users not injured where water diversion did not displace water \`from the time and place of their need'\
- land developers required only to provide augmentation plan to replace amounts of water consumptively used; augmentation not needed for diversions compensated by return flows
- land developers required only to provide augmentation plan to replace amounts of water consumptively used; augmentation not needed for diversions compensated by return flows
- “water is available for appropriation if the diversion thereof does not injure holders of vested rights”
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Judges: Groves
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