{"id":113554,"date":"2015-03-31T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gardner-aims-to-bolster-water-rights\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:01:00","slug":"gardner-aims-to-bolster-water-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gardner-aims-to-bolster-water-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner aims to bolster water rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72656356-b8d6-4667-aab7-c424089f39a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72656356-b8d6-4667-aab7-c424089f39a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72656356-b8d6-4667-aab7-c424089f39a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72656356-b8d6-4667-aab7-c424089f39a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"329\" height=\"498\" alt=\"Gardner\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gardner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vVYI_SjiYA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The amendment, which passed later in the day 59-41, would recognize the authority to manage water according to state law and protect against federal takeover of water rights and permits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, whether it is the Forest Service, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, other agencies have continued to seek their ways to impose a water right at the federal level without going through the same channels and the same water-law system that other people in Colorado do,\u201d Gardner said in his speech. \u201cPeople who are by right, by law and by our Constitution have the rightful ownership of Colorado water rights and water permits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis amendment protects communities, businesses, recreationists, farmers and ranchers that rely on these privately held water rights and permits from federal takings. The amendment recognizes the long-standing authority to manage water according to our state law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Harris of Harris Water Engineering in Durango on Thursday told The Cortez Journal he believes the amendment is a good idea, as problems have persisted with ski resorts that lease federal land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is quite a big issue,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThe Forest Service is requiring that the ski areas turn over water rights to the Forest Service to maintain their water permits.\u201d Forest Service officials have argued that transferring water rights to the federal government would ensure that the necessary water is provided for winter recreation.<\/p>\n<p>They have contended that if the necessary amount of water no longer is available, the economic effects would be devastating.<\/p>\n<p>Harris added that bypass flow requirements for permits on the Forest Service\u2019s land also have hurt water-rights holders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t get nearly as much water afterwards,\u201d said Harris. \u201cRather than getting a bigger flow from rivers, they get only a little bit of flow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Cipriano is a student at American University in Washington, D.C., and an intern for The Cortez Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardner The amendment, which passed later in the day 59-41, would recognize the authority to manage water according to state law and protect against federal takeover of water rights and permits. \u201cUnfortunately, whether it is the Forest Service, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, other agencies have continued to seek their ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13,1566],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-113554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-u-s-senate"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113554"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=113554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}