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PURGATOIRE RIVER WATER CONSERVANCY v. KUIPER

No. 27962.

593 P.2d 333 (1979)

PURGATOIRE RIVER WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT, John Flood Ditch Company, El Moro Ditch Company, Baca Irrigating Ditch Company, Chilili Ditch Company, Picketwire Ditch Co., Inc., the Enlarged South Side Ditch Co., the Hoehne Ditch Company, Lewelling and McCormick Ditch Co., Salas Ditch Co., and the Burns and Duncan Ditch Co., Plaintiffs, and City of Trinidad and Model Land and Irrigation Company, Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. C. J. KUIPER, State Engineer, Robert W. Jesse, Division Engineer, Henry D. Marques, Water Commissioner, Defendants and Cross Claim Defendants, and Highland Irrigation Company and Nine Mile Canal Co., Defendants and Cross Claimants, and Amity Mutual Irrigation Company and the Fort Lyon Canal Company, Intervenor-Defendants and Cross Claimants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearings Denied April 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Clyde O. Martz, Howard L. Boigon, Stanley L. Grazis, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison & Woodruff, P. C., Raphael Moses, David L. Harrison, Boulder, for intervenors-plaintiffs-appellants.

J. D. MacFarland, Atty. Gen., David W. Robbins, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendants and cross claim defendants-appellees.

Vranesh, Raisch & Schroeder, P.C., Wayne B. Schroeder, Boulder, for defendants and cross claimants-appellees.

Carl M. Shinn, Lamar, for intervenor-defendant and cross claimant-appellee Amity Mutual Irrigation Co.

Lefferdink, Lefferdink & Stovall, John J. Lefferdink, Lamar, for intervenor-defendants and cross claimant-appellee The Fort Lyon Canal Co.

James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Maryann Walsh, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., amicus curiae United States.

GROVES, Justice.

This proceeding relates to the administration of certain water rights by reason of the construction and operation of the Trinidad Project. We reverse.

The Trinidad Project consists of an on-stream dam and a 114,000 acre foot reservoir (TRINIDAD RESERVOIR) on the Purgatoire River approximately four miles upstream from the City of Trinidad. This is a multi-use flood control, reclamation and recreation project authorized by Congress in 1958

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