Water Rights of Orr v. City & County of Denver

The water court granted the applicant’s application for underground water rights and the use of well water as alternate points of diversion for the applicant’s decreed surface water. The protestants objected there and here on the grounds that the rights represented by the applicant’s surface decrees had been abandoned in whole or in substantial part, and that the change in points of diversion requested by the applicants would cause substantial injury to junior appropriators. The protestants further urged here that some of the applicant’s claimed underground water rights are not subject to…