Colorado Water Conservation Board v. Central City
Issued November 28, 2005
On November 28, 2005, the Colorado Supreme Court issued its decision in Colorado Water Conservation Board v. Central City. Among other issues, the decision addresses how decreed instream flow water rights must be protected in an augmentation plan. The Court stated, "[w]e likewise hold that an adjudicated instream flow right entitles its holder to maintain the stream conditions existing at the time of its appropriation and to resist proposed developments through changes of water rights or augmentation plans, regardless of the means, that in any way materially injure instream flow rights."
