LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS

April 2007

To read this entire item of approximately 1800 words online now in PDF format: Click here to read this item if you are an existing subscriber to this publication. Click here to purchase the full text of this item to read now (price: $25). To subscribe to this publication and immediately access all its archives including this item, select the relevant publication under 'Catalogue' in the left-hand column PLEASE NOTE: to read PDFs on www.argento.com you must be using Version 5 of Acrobat Reader or Adobe Reader. If you have an earlier version you can download the latest free of charge by clicking here

Colorado Legislature Seeks to Fill Gaps in Water Law and Administration

Colorado’s new Democratic-lead legislature has considered a number of water-related bills in this 2007 session dealing with issues such as condemnation of water rights, loans of water rights for instream flows, water quality protection, and the authority of the Colorado State Engineer. While the Senate has yet to vote on the condemnation bill, both the instream flow bill and the water quality protection bill have passed both chambers. A dispute over the Colorado State Engineer’s authority to curtail augmentation plan diversions will not be settled by the legislature, for now, as it was postponed indefinitely by committee.