Concerning Application for Underground Water Rights v. Arapahoe Water & Sanitation District

QUINN, Chief Justice.

This case involves the interpretation of a 1969 decree, entered pursuant to the Adjudication Act of 1943, §§ 148-9-1 to -27, 7 C.R.S. (1963), which changed the points of diversion of certain decreed water rights from surface ditches to wells. In 1981, the applicants, Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District, James L. Orr, Cogito N.V., Erwin Interests, Inc., Lester A. Dixon, Jr., Joann Dixon Morrow, and Leslie E. Dixon, in her capacity as personal representative of Bruce H. Dixon, filed an application for a determination with respect to a change in water right in Water…