Gallegos Family Properties, LLC v. Colorado Groundwater Commission

¶1 Gallegos Family Properties, LLC (“Gallegos”), returns to this court for a second time in its effort to de-designate a portion of the Upper Crow Creek Designated Ground Water Basin (“the Basin”) and redraw the Basin boundaries to exclude twenty-five wells so that the State Engineer can curtail these junior groundwater rights in favor of Gallegos’s senior surface water rights on Crow Creek. The defendants-ap-pellees (“Well Owners”) oppose this petition because if their properties remain within the Basin, the State Engineer cannot curtail their junior groundwater rights. ■

¶2 This opinion…