Legal Opinion
Closed Basin Landowners Ass'n v. Rio Grande Water Conservation District
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided March 23, 1987No. 85SA214PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERICKSON, Justice.
The plaintiffs, Closed Basin Landowners Association (Landowners) and A.Z.L. Resources, Inc. (AZL), appeal after summary judgment was entered against them by the water court for Division No. 3 on their collateral challenge to a decree adjudicating a conditional water right to the defendant, Rio Grande Water Conservation District (Rio Grande). We affirm.
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On December 22, 1972, Rio Grande filed an application in Case No. W-3038 for a conditional water right to develop the “Closed Basin Project” in Saguache and Alamosa Counties, Colorado. The Closed Basin Project, first…
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