Coalition praises decision to terminate water rights

MEEKER I Western Resource Advocates (WRA), a regional conservation organization, and Joe Livingston, a rancher and business owner living in the Big Beaver Creek Valley above Meeker, praised a court decision to terminate the Yellow Jacket Water Conservancy District’s water rights.
A water judge in Steamboat Springs, Colo., terminated the Yellow Jacket Water Conservancy District’s conditional water rights to three reservoirs that would have stored approximately 140,000 acre-feet per year in the White River basin…