JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS

June 2005

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Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Water Court’s Determination to Revise Water Use Decree to Allow Greater Nontributary Groundwater Withdrawals
East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District v. Rangeview Metropolitan District, ___P.3d___

In this case, the opposer-appellant East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District (East Cherry Creek) appealed from a judgment of the District Court, Water Division No. 1 granting Rangeview Metropolitan District’s (Rangeview) and the Colorado Board of Land Commissioners’ (Board) nontributary water rights application for a change to its previous water rights decree.