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Council approves IGA with Louisville to swap water deliveries as part of Marshall shares settlement
Summary
The council unanimously approved a five-year intergovernmental agreement with the City of Louisville to swap consumable water deliveries to meet stream-replacement obligations tied to Broomfield’s Marshall shares decree; the IGA caps deliveries and establishes a two-year accounting and payment reconciliation.
The Broomfield City and County Council unanimously approved Resolution 2025-14 authorizing an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with the City of Louisville under which each city will lease fully consumable water to the other to help meet court-ordered stream-replacement requirements tied to Broomfield’s recently decreed Marshall shares.
Why this IGA: Broomfield changed 157 Marshall shares in a water-court case to allow municipal uses, which triggered conditions to protect downstream water rights. Louisville, an opposer in that case, wanted assurances that Broomfield could deliver replacement water to an unnamed tributary to Coal Creek that flows through a series of ponds (the Anthem ponds). To settle that concern without trial, the two cities agreed to a limited water-lease arrangement.
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