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Artificially Recharging Aquifer Does Not Injure Senior Water Rights
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2002.tb10224.x
Subject(s) - aquifer , groundwater recharge , supreme court , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , geology , law , groundwater , political science , geotechnical engineering
According to the Supreme Court of Colorado, when parties have use rights to water they have captured, possessed, and controlled, they may place that water into an aquifer by artificial recharge if the aquifer can accommodate recharged water without any injury to decreed senior water rights.