The Colorado Supreme Court in Denver on Monday ruled 7-0 in favor of the town of Carbondale in its six-year-old case against a Nettle Creek landowner regarding the use of pesticides near the town’s main water supply. The ruling by the state’s high court overturned a Colorado Court of Appeals decision sending the case back to trial, and reinstated a 2003 Pitkin County District Court judg­ment in the town’s favor. In that ruling, then-9th District Chief Judge Thomas Ossola, who has since retired, found Garry Snook and his GSS Properties LLC negli­gent in damaging the town’s water supply. Snook’s 55-acre Hanging Val­ley Ranch is located immediately above the town’s Nettle Creek water ­treatment plant on the western flank of Mount Sopris.

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