nontributary

Historically, the right to withdraw nontributary groundwater belonged to the overlying landowner, while tributary ground water is administered according to the prior appropriation system.

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That ruling resulted in the Legislature revising Colorado's statutes to give special rights to those claiming to use nontributary water for mineral purposes, in the state engineer promulgating rules that define certain areas of the groundwater in the San Juan Basin to be nontributary, and in the gas industry racing to the courthouse to adjudicate water rights for its coal-bed methane wells.

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What followed was a series of rulemakings by the state engineer for the Division of Water Resources to determine what water is tributary - and therefore requires an augmentation plan to replenish what is removed in the drilling process - and what are discrete areas of water that have little impact on rivers and streams: nontributary.

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What followed was a series of rulemakings by the state engineer for the Division of Water Resources to determine what water is tributary - and therefore requires an augmentation plan to replenish what is removed in the drilling process - and what are discrete areas of water that have little impact on rivers and streams: nontributary.

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In the meantime, though, landowners who received notice of a water-rights filing - tributary or nontributary - would be wise to educate themselves about what is at stake in their particular circumstance.

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The state engineer maintains all that is required to access nontributary water is to be the first to have a permit and show to the state that the water will be used for a beneficial purpose.

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The gas industry then gave the state a map it had developed showing where the nontributary water is, which our state government chose to adopt.

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The gas industry then gave the state a map it had developed showing where the nontributary water is, which our state government chose to adopt.

Durangoherald.com 2010

The state engineer maintains all that is required to access nontributary water is to be the first to have a permit and show to the state that the water will be used for a beneficial purpose.

Durangoherald.com 2010

In the meantime, though, landowners who received notice of a water-rights filing - tributary or nontributary - would be wise to educate themselves about what is at stake in their particular circumstance.

Durangoherald.com 2010