Settlement talks between Montezuma Valley Irrigation Co. and the Dolores Water Conservancy District have reached the end of the year without resolution after a series of postponed meetings and anti-climactic hearings. MVIC filed suit against the conservancy district and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in June for allegedly not meeting water requirements agreed to in 1977 contracts of the Dolores Project.

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