Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. City of Golden

Two water rights decrees ("60s decrees") entered in 1961 and 1964 ("60s proceedings") gave the City of Golden ("Golden") the right to divert up to 4.66 cubic feet per second ("cf.s.") of Priority 12 water 1 continuously from May lst through October 31st. In Farmers High Line Canal & Reservoir Co. v. City of Golden, 975 P.2d 189 (Colo.1999), we held that claim preclusion prohibited the imposition of volumetric limits on these rights. 975 P.2d at 192. We reasoned that appellants were "precluded from seeking a modification of the decrees at issue because the decrees are unambiguous and because…