City of Thornton v. Clear Creek Water Users Alliance

The City of Thornton appeals from a water court ruling granting the Clear Creek Water Users Alliance’s application for alternate places of storage for a previously decreed conditional right to store 110,000 acre-feet of water. The Alliance received a decree in 1983 to store 110,000 acre-feet of water in a proposed reservoir, the Clear Creek Reservoir, located near the confluence of Clear Creek and North Clear Creek in upper Clear Creek Basin. The Alliance subsequently filed an application to change its conditional right by adding five additional proposed storage sites to its conditional right…