Town of De Beque v. Enewold

This case consolidated, on appeal, four conditional water right diligence applications originally filed in Water Division No. 5: Case No. W-2118-77, the diligence application of the Town of De Beque (De Beque), and Case Nos. W-44, W-789, and W-789-76, which are the successive diligence applications in 1970, 1972, and 1976 of the Colorado River Water Conservation District (River District).

After separate hearings, the trial court entered its orders on September 15, 1978, cancelling the conditional water rights of De Beque and the River District on the ground that both had failed to file their…