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Colorado Ranch Denied Conditional Water Right on Federal Land
Publication year - 2003
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.1551-8833.2003.tb10446.x
Subject(s) - supreme court , spring (device) , water right , geography , forestry , law , political science , hydrology (agriculture) , water resources , ecology , geology , engineering , biology , mechanical engineering , geotechnical engineering
Because the US Forest Service (USFS) denied a ranch a special use permit (SUP) to capture water from a spring located on National Forest land, the ranch was not entitled to a conditional water right to the spring, according to the Supreme Court of Colorado.