Legal Opinion
High Plains A & M, LLC v. Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided September 12, 2005No. Nos. 04SA266, 04SA267PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOBBS, Justice.
Applicants High Plains A & M, LLC and Wollert Enterprises, Inc. (collectively, "High Plains") appeal the water court's dismissal of their applications for change of water rights. High Plains applied to change water rights historically used for irrigation to any one of over fifty proposed uses in any of twenty-eight Colorado counties. The water court found the change application "so expansive and nebulous" that there was no way to determine whether vested water rights would be injured by the change or to determine if there would actually be a new beneficial use made of the…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Colorado Water Conservation Board v. Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy DistrictSupreme Court of Colorado · 2005
- City of Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1996
- Strickler v. City of Colorado SpringsSupreme Court of Colorado · 1891
- Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1882
- Sieber v. FrinkSupreme Court of Colorado · 1883
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