Metropolitan Denver Sewage Disposal District No. 1 v. Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co.

The defendants in error (plaintiffs) have decreed rights for irrigation purposes out of the South Platte River. In about 1937 Denver constructed a sewage treatment facility known as the Denver Northside Plant. Effluent from this plant was discharged into the South Platte River above the common headgate of. the plaintiffs. Beginning in about 1966 the effluent from Denver’s sewage was placed in the river *38downstream from this headgate. The plaintiffs brought before the court this declaratory judgment action asking, among other things, that it be adjudged that the plaintiffs are entitled to have…