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Monte Vista wins water-rights decree; council asked to OK 1-year lease to Rio Grande Water Conservation District
Summary
City water counsel and engineering consultant described a final water-court decree that establishes an augmentation plan and exchanges to help replace well depletions; staff asked the council to approve a one-year lease of stored water to the Rio Grande Water Conservation District to simplify accounting and replacement obligations.
Monte Vista water counsel Jeff Williams told the city council that on April 1 a water court entered a final decree in the city’s water-rights case filed in 2016, a development Williams called “good news for the city.”
The decree, Williams said, converts certain ditch water rights so the city can use their historical consumptive portion to replace depletions from municipal wells and authorizes exchanges that let the city store water in Rio Grande Reservoir for later release. “The plan for augmentation . . . explains how we're gonna replace the depletions from the city's wells,” Williams said.
Jordan Dimock, a technical consultant from SGM, described how the city has been operating under a substitute…
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