September 19, 2007--Owners say water claim is not fair (Colorado Springs Gazette)
After years of searching, Cherokee Metropolitan District thinks it has found a water source: underneath 85 properties outside its boundaries in northeast El Paso County. The fast-growing district is using leases it signed in the mid-1950's with Ellicott-area property owners when the area was a sparse colection of farms. Nine landowners, however, have filed protests with the Colorado Ground Water Commission.
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