South Adams County Water & Sanitation District v. Broe Land Co.

In this change of use proceeding, the relative priorities of decreed water rights of the North Fork and the South Fork of the South Platte River are in issue. The Colorado Water Court, Division No. 1, entered a ruling and order (Case No. 84CW566, March 28, 1989) holding that the Park County District Court’s adjudication, on May 22,1913, of water rights located on the North Fork of the South Platte River was an original adjudication, and that water rights on the North Fork of the South Platte River should be administered according to their appropriation dates as against all other vested water…