CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER v. UNITED STATES

No. 79 SA 344.

656 P.2d 36 (1982)

CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, acting By and Through its BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS; Adolph Coors Company, Inc., a corporation; Public Service Company of Colorado, a corporation; City of Loveland; E.E. Sonnenberg and Sons, Inc., a corporation; and City of Lafayette, Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, and Cache La Poudre Water Users Association, et al., Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellants, and State of Colorado, et al., Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne D. Williams, Chief Counsel, Michael L. Walker, Associate Counsel, Saunders, Snyder, Ross & Dickson, P.C., Glenn G. Saunders, Martha Phillips Feiten, Melvin B. Sabey, Denver, for the City and County of Denver, acting by and through its Bd. of Water Com'rs.

Jack F. Ross, Denver, for Adolph Coors Co., Inc.

Kelley, Stansfield & O'Donnell, Timothy Flanagan, Denver, for Public Service Co. of Colorado.

Lynn A. Hammond, City Atty., Loveland, for City of Loveland.

George Vranesh, Boulder, for E.E. Sonnenberg & Sons, Inc. and City of Lafayette.

Joseph Dolan, U.S. Atty., Denver, Colo., Joshua I. Schwartz, Appellate Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Hank Meshorer, Senior Trial Attorney, Land and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Denver, for the United States of America.

Fischer, Brown, Huddleson & Gunn, Ward H. Fischer, Fort Collins, for Cache La Poudre Water Users Ass'n; Water Supply & Storage Co.; Jackson Ditch Co.; Tunnel Water Co.; Pleasant Valley & Lake Canal Co.; Louden Irrigating Canal & Reservoir Co.; Thompson Water Users Ass'n; New Cache La Poudre Irrigating Co.; Cache La Poudre Reservoir Co.; City of Fort Collins, Colorado; Consolidated Ditches Co. of Water Dist. No. 1.

Kim R. Lawrence, Greeley, for Central Colorado Water Conservancy Dist.

Holland & Hart, John U. Carlson, Charles M. Elliott, Paul D. Frohardt, Denver, for City of Westminster.

J.D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Dennis M. Montgomery, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for State of Colo.

Vandemoer & Reichelt, P.C., Julesburg, for Julesburg Irrigation Dist.

Hill & Hill, Alden V. Hill, Fort Collins, for North Poudre Irrigation Co.

Davis, Graham & Stubbs, John M. Sayre, Robert V. Trout, Denver, for Northern Colorado Water Conservancy Dist.; Municipal Subdistrict, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy Dist.

Kochenburger & Smith, John E. Kochenburger, Fort Collins, for Windsor Reservoir & Canal Co.; Divide Canal & Reservoir Co.; Cache La Poudre Irrigating Ditch Co.; Larimer & Weld Reservoir Co.; Larimer & Weld Irrigation Co.

Sherman & Howard, Gary L. Greer, Denver, for The Warrior Ditch Co.; Town of Empire.

Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor & Holmes, Denver, for Lower South Platte Water Conservancy Dist.

Zook & Woolf, Marvin B. Woolf, Boulder, for Triple Creek Ranch Co.

Stover & Brandes, William Stover, Fort Collins, for the Warren Lake Reservoir Co.

Albert B. Dawkins, Denver, for William C. Russell, Jr.; Mona M. Dawkins; The Braecher Ranch Co.

William E. Bohlender, Greeley, for the City of Greeley.

Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison & Woodrull, David L. Harrison, Boulder, for South Adams County Water & Sanitation Dist.; Highland Ditch Co.; City of Aravada; City of Golden; City of Boulder; Genesee Water & Sanitation Dist.; Great Western Sugar Co.; Crystal Lakes Development Co.; Glacier View Meadows; Western Paving Const. Co.; Amax, Inc.; Highland Venturers.

Delaney & Balcomb, Kenneth Balcomb, Glenwood Springs, for Colorado River Water Conservation Dist., amicus curiae.

McDaniel & Yates, L.W. McDaniel, Durango, for Southwestern Water Conservation Dist., amicus curiae.

Welborn, Dufford, Cook & Brown, Robert F. Welborn, William C. Robb, Phillip D. Barber, Denver, for CF & I Steel Corp., amicus curiae.


ERICKSON, Justice.

This appeal was taken from a declaratory judgment entered by the District Court in and for Water Division No. 1 (water court) which purported to resolve a conflict in the relationship between Colorado appropriation law and federal reserved water rights. Pursuant to a minute order issued June 19, 1980, our decision in this case was held in abeyance until the resolution of the appeals from the Water Court for Water Divisions 4, 5, and 6. Our decision...

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