Twin Lakes Reservoir & Canal Co. v. City of Aspen

This case is here on the denial of an application for a conditional water right by the Water Judge of Colorado’s Water Division No. 5. Involved are proposed increases of conditional decrees for some of the component parts of the Independence Pass Transmountain Diversion System (“IPTDS”). The applicant and operator of the system is the appellant Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company (“Twin Lakes”). We reverse.

Twin Lakes diverts water from streams constituting the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River (a tributary of the Colorado River) in Western Colorado through a tunnel to the Arkansas River…