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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 37 - Water and Irrigation » Article 83 - Exchange of Water

§ 37-83-101. Transfer From One Stream to Another

Whenever any person or company diverts water from one public stream and turns it into another public stream, such person or company may take out the same amount of water again, less a reasonable deduction for seepage and evaporation, to be determined by the state engineer. Source: L. 1897: p. 176, § 1. R.S. 08: […]

§ 37-83-102. Maintenance of Measuring Devices

Any person or company transferring water from one public stream to another is required to construct and maintain, under the direction of the state engineer, measuring flumes or weirs and self-registering devices at the point where the water leaves its natural watershed and is turned into another and also at the point where it is […]

§ 37-83-103. Division Engineer to Keep Record

It is the duty of the division engineer of the division in which the water is used to keep a record of the amount of water so turned into his division from any other division. Source: L. 1897: p. 176, § 3. R.S. 08: § 3224. C.L. § 1704. CSA: C. 90, § 102. CRS […]

§ 37-83-104. Reservoirs and Ditches May Exchange

When the rights of others are not injured thereby, it is lawful for the owner of a reservoir to deliver stored water into a ditch entitled to water or into the public stream to supply appropriations from said stream and take in exchange therefor from the public stream higher up an equal amount of water, […]

§ 37-83-106. Authority of Political Subdivisions to Lease or Exchange Water

Water conservancy districts and water conservation districts which own or hold rights to water may enter into cooperative agreements with other political subdivisions of the state for the lease or exchange of water produced in the exercise of such district’s water rights and the construction or use of waterworks within or outside of district boundaries, […]