Colorado Water Rights Abandonment List. Written protests may be submitted to the water court by june 30 2022. The decennial abandonment list represents one of the system s checks to make sure that water stays in use.
After going through a court process where people who think they ve been erroneously included have time to appeal the list was whittled down to roughly 2 200 water rights that were officially declared abandoned according to records from the colorado division of water resources. By december 31 2021 the division engineer will file a revised abandonment list with the water court. B the abandonment list provided for in this section when concluded by judgment and decree shall be conclusive as to water rights determined to have been abandoned.
Division engineer s 2020 abandonment list pdfs by division and sortable spreadsheet for all of colorado division 1 south platte.
The decennial abandonment list is available on dwr s website here. The initial water rights abandonment lists have been published and are available for review. A water right may be placed on the abandonment list if the amount of water diverted over the past 10 years is less than the decreed amount. Light division engineer abandonment list of july 1 2020 the division engineer in accordance with 37 92 401 colorado revised statutes 2019 has compiled the list of absolute water rights that he or she has.