“Jerry Koch, Water Task Force leader, is professing to provide, “Practical, objective educational water related information to the authorities, volunteers and citizens of Elbert County”
Maybe… but this sure looks like someone predisposed to the joys of fracking and not conservation of Elbert County’s water.”
RE:
12CW118 W. JERRY AND PAULA M. KOCH, PO Box 970, Elizabeth, CO 80107. Telephone: 303-646-4201. APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF WATER RIGHT IN ELBERT COUNTY. Date of original decree: case 94CW045, 12-8-94; case 04CW277, 05-24-05. Koch Pumping Station located NW1/4, SW1/4, S20, T8S, R64W of the 6th PM. Diversion at various pts along Running Creek from 550 ft E of SW corner of NW1/4, SW1/4 to 100 ft E of NW1/4,SW1/4 S20, T8S, R64W of the 6th PM. Date of appropriation: 12-12-89. Amount: 2cfs Conditional. Decreed Use: Irrigation. Change of Use to (potential): Fish pond or water storage; oil drilling; fracing; sale of water; Augmentation; and water bottling.
Note well, this concerns OWNED surface water ALREADY PUT TO ANOTHER BENEFICIAL USE. It doesn’t concern ground water. It concerns a water property right owned by the Koch’s — a property right available to anyone in Colorado.
Now come the new-strange folks who imply that to even think about using a drop of Colorado water from any source whatsoever, and regardless of property right, in a fracking process, is an ignominious thought crime to be publicly reviled.
You elected these people to govern Elbert County. And they haven’t even started yet.
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