{"id":3029,"date":"2012-07-09T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/water-thought-police\/"},"modified":"2012-07-14T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:40:13","slug":"water-thought-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/water-thought-police\/","title":{"rendered":"water thought police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jerry-koch-files-to-frack-upstream-from-elizabeth.pdf\" title=\"New-Strange says\u2026\">New-Strange says\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jerry Koch, Water Task Force leader, is professing to provide,  &#8220;Practical, objective educational water related information to the  authorities, volunteers and citizens of Elbert County&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe&#8230; but this sure looks like someone predisposed to the joys of fracking and not conservation of Elbert County&#8217;s water.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Note well<\/strong><\/em>, this concerns <em>OWNED<\/em> surface water <em>ALREADY PUT TO ANOTHER BENEFICIAL USE<\/em>.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t concern ground water.\u00a0 It concerns a water property right owned by the Koch&#8217;s &#8212; a property right available to anyone in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Now come the <em>new-strange<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>You elected <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/lying-down-with-dogs\/\">these people<\/a> to govern Elbert County.\u00a0 And they haven&#8217;t even started yet.<\/p>\n<p>B_Imperial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0New-Strange says\u2026 &#8220;Jerry Koch, Water Task Force leader, is professing to provide, &#8220;Practical, objective educational water related information to the authorities, volunteers and citizens of Elbert County&#8221; Maybe&#8230; but this sure looks like someone predisposed to the joys of fracking and not conservation of Elbert County&#8217;s water.&#8221; RE: 12CW118 W. JERRY AND PAULA M. KOCH, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-police","7":"category-water","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}