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September 30, 2012--Water resources committee OKs six bills for upcoming session (Pueblo Chieftain)

Five bills to protect water rights, another to change stormwater permit process and two resolutions were approved last week by the interim water resources committee. The actions represent concerns brought to the committee, which includes members of both houses, over the last two months by water users throughout the state. They will be referred to the full Legislature in 2013. One seeks to address questions of the amount and location of acreage intended to be irrigated by older water rights. When the water rights are changed in court, lawyers argue over the original intent of the irrigator. The new law would change the determination to the maximum amount of land irrigated during the first 50 years after the original decree. It would apply to water rights claimed more than 75 years ago, when it is unlikely that those who claimed the right would still be living to testify about intent.

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