Colorado River Water Conservation District v. Vidler Tunnel Water Co.

The appellant Colorado River Water Conservation District (District) here seeks reversal of the trial court’s conditional water storage decree entered under the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969. Section 37-92-101, et seq., C.R.S. 1973. The court awarded a conditional water storage right, with an appropriation date of August 1, 1973, to the appellee Vidler Tunnel Water Company (Vidler) for storage of 156,238 acre feet of water in its proposed Sheephorn Reservoir. The court decreed that, should appropriation be effected, the water be used for municipal, industrial,…