So who remembers when Tim Craft said he was waiving his rights to move water outside the Independence Special District boundaries? A bunch of us remember, and so did Elbert County notes from the public hearings… (click to enlarge)
Elbert County’s Independence Hearing Notes
Of course one week before Christmas when nobody is looking, Tim Craft has petitioned the Colorado Water Court to do the opposite – he now wants to amend his decreed rights and export water off-site. (click to enlarge)
From their public notice December 19, 2019; “The decreed uses are in-house and irrigation on the subject property. By this application, Applicant requests that the decreed uses be amended to include in-house, irrigation, domestic, municipal, industrial, commercial, stock watering, fire protection and exchange and augmentation purposes both on and off the subject property.”
And per their plan Larry and Moe Elbert County Commissioners sit silent. I’m not sure whether they are just that stupid or corrupt? No hearing, not a peep from the Stooges. Crooked is, as crooked does, Fredo.
Do these clowns really believe that if Craft is granted his petition to amend his decreed water rights and move water outside his Independence boundaries – these county fools really believe they will somehow supersede Colorado Water Rights decreed by Colorado Water Court? Better get with it and file your objections right now Douglas and Elbert County Folks – or as Tim Craft’s notice says in his first (and final) public notice, “or be forever barred“.
Concerned citizens are meeting at the Elizabeth library on January 7th (2020) at 7 PM to learn how to fill out the proper opposition forms, and also learn how to “piggyback” others oppositions.
It cost me $12,500 in March to lower a new pump 63′ after I ran dry just months after Independence started drilling their deep wells out back of my property. Coincidence? Nah… (click to enlarge)
Who’s next? What’s your house worth without water? And for those with “adjudicated” water rights – what’s it going to cost you to tap the Denver or Arapahoe aquifers at roughly $20 a foot to find water because your well went dry? Maybe like Tim Craft personally told me, “we’ll provide you a tap!” Of course you will Schmuck, at a monthly fee to sell me back the water you thieved from all of us in the first place.
Nothing we can do about the expected 9,922 vehicle in and outs A DAY off Hilltop Road\CR 158, but we can still try to save our wells!
Get with it folks. See you January 7th.
I’ll show off my Elbert County Commissioner replies to my emails in my next post. You won’t want to miss these!
Happy New Year!