Letter to the Editor: Yellow Jacket district responds

Dear Editor:
To the constituents of the Yellow Jacket Water Conservancy District: As previously reported, Judge Michael O’Hara of the Division 6 Water Court in Steamboat Springs granted certain upriver landowners and Western Resource Advocates (a Boulder-based environmental group) motion for summary judgment to dismiss several of the district’s historical conditional water rights. The water court was persuaded that procedural issues related to the timing of appointment of directors invalidated the timely filing of the…