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CWCB declines immediate purchase of Pagosa’s Dry Gulch property; reserves future rights while litigation proceeds
Summary
The board directed staff to reply to Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District's notice of sale without taking a substantive position while reserving CWCB's ability to exercise the contract right later, citing pending litigation between Pagosa and the San Juan Water Conservancy District.
The Colorado Water Conservation Board on a contested agenda item told staff to acknowledge Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District’s (PAWS) January notice that it intends to sell the Running Iron Ranch (Dry Gulch reservoir site) but to refrain from making a substantive decision on exercising CWCB’s contractual right at this time.
CWCB finance chief Kirk Russell reviewed the long history of the Dry Gulch project: CWCB and the San Juan Water Conservancy District supplied grants and loans to secure the reservoir site and related water rights decades ago. The districts subsequently restructured debt in 2015; CWCB’s amended agreement included a 90‑day right-of-first-refusal clause that requires PAWS to deliver an appraisal and notice to CWCB before a sale. Russell told…
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