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· 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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