Legal Opinion
Buffalo Park Development Co. v. Mountain Mutual Reservoir Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided November 3, 2008No. 06SA373PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hobbs
This water case is now in its 15th year. It was filed in 1994 with an application for conditional water rights and an augmentation plan for 205 wells to be constructed in five Jefferson County mountain subdivisions in the Turkey Creek and Bear Creek sub-basins of the South Platte River Basin.
From the outset of the case, the owners of existing small capacity wells in the vicinity of three of the subdivisions, Mountain Park Homes, Bear Mountain Vista, and Cragmont subdivisions, asserted: (1) no unappropriated ground water remained available for appropriation by means of the newly-proposed…
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