January 14, 2008--Well group files on Bessemer Ditch change (Pueblo Chieftain)
A well owners' group is trying to make permanent its use of Bessemer Ditch shares to augment wells. The Colorado Water Protective and Development Association owns a little more than 87 shares of Bessemer Ditch water, which it primarily uses to augment the wells of about 20 commercial operations which drilled the wells after 1985. The water has been used year-by-year under an augmentation plan approved by the Colorado Division of Water Resources. Last month, CWPDA made an application to make the use of the water permanent through a change of use decree, as required by state law.
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