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Council approves resolution clarifying sewage‑treatment discharge water‑right usage
Summary
The council adopted Resolution 2025‑01 clarifying the town will not surrender water rights and will only release recreation fisheries conditional uses while protecting irrigation and industrial conditional rights.
Rangely's council approved Resolution 2025‑01 regarding water‑rights associated with the town's sewage treatment plant discharge. Staff emphasized the town is not surrendering diversion or other water rights; the resolution asks to release recreation‑fisheries conditional uses while retaining irrigation and industrial conditional rights.
"I just want to remind everyone that we are not surrendering any of the water rights or its diversion," the town manager said during the discussion. A council member moved the resolution and it was seconded; the council voted and the motion carried.
Council members framed the action as a limited, administrative clarification to preserve the town's conditional rights while adjusting specific permitted uses tied to recreation fisheries.
