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Down the ditch

            What do you think of the water court's ruling on this butchered mountain stream? I already walked the trek, snapped these shots and revealed my opinion. Reply in comments if you want. 

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Here was my parallel: Your honor, Joe down the road stole my brand new shotgun for feeding my family.
Reply from the court: I'm sorry, it appears that Joe used it first to bag game. He owns it now. 
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Here's my shot of the James Creek diversion at South St. Vrain. You can see the highly built up ditch, right and the ditch meter. Boy, does the early light suck down in this hole. It is at least two hours early especially on a blazing blue sky day. Oh well, I was there right then and it looked interesting for the story even if it is another tough shot to edit while using multiple layers. It's a pretty crummy diversion for which all of western water law hinged, rightly or wrongly. I just as well edit these descriptive shots for the series. Maybe I could find them a beaver to work for Lefthand Ripped Water District. 

Here we now at the "headwaters" of James Creek on that blue bird autumn day. Al and I trekked up to the meadow - really the original source of James. It's always worth some serious slackage after the trek. In fact, we are now above the original source of the James. It surely looks like an irrigation ditch diversion in the mountains. Who dug this ditch and why? Is that a metering and reporting station avross the ditch. Maybe it reports little water. I figured I'd fully document the landmark in this series. Now you saw the source! 

Maintenance was required after the big flood that nearly wiped out Jamestown. Boy did the water diversion ever pay Jamestown back bigly during the big flood a few years back! After looking over the "flaccid" ditch, I wonder where ALL the rest of the flood waters came from. 

Al claimed that he intended to do an article for the Longmont Observer about the James Creek water diversion that figured most mightily into Western, Colorado and regional water law. Phil and I knew that this all had to do with the diversion at the top of James Creek a spot we visited previously and knew well. The story is well woven into our history. This is my reveal of the geography behind the story.

Taken on: August 19, 2019

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