United States v. District Court in & for Water Division No. 5

This is a companion case to the Eagle County case, ante, p. 520, and involves an action brought under a different state statute1 in the District Court of Colorado for Water Division No. 5.2 That court was given responsibility for water rights determinations affecting “all lands in the state of Colorado in the drainage basins of the Colorado river and all of its tributaries arising within Colorado, with the exception of the Gunnison river,” 3 which includes the area of the Eagle River system.

Notice was served on the United States pursuant to 43 U. S. C. § 666 (b) and it moved to quash the…