re: colorado water rights questions

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If you don’t own the water rights you may not collect any water on your property and in some cases you may not be allowed to use the stream at all.

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just to circle back here, I talked to a water rights lawyer and the above is correct for this property. Although the permanent creek runs thru the property and both sides of the creek are within the property lines, water collection anywhere within the watershed is not allowed nor is physical access to the water past the natural bank.

the only allowed use is livestock watering as long as they can get down to the creekbed

I’m going to keep looking