Opinion
69cv07896-BB RIO TAOS ADJUDICATION, 69cv07939-BB RIO HONDO ADJUDICATION, Consolidated.
May 22, 2009
Section: Rio Pueblo de Taos
Ditch: Sanchez Ditch
ORDER APPLYING PRIORITY DATE FOR SANCHEZ DITCH TO INDIVIDUAL SUBFILES
In the May 13, 2002 Memorandum Opinion and Order (Docket No. 3026), the Court clarified procedures for determining subfile priority dates and stated that acequia-wide priority dates are to be applied to the water rights they serve. Each claimant has had an opportunity to prove an earlier priority date during the subfile phase and objectors will have the opportunity to prove later priority dates during the inter se phase. (No. 3026) On November 18, 2005, the Court entered a Memorandum Opinion and Order (No. 4701) that adopted a priority date of 1800 for the Sanchez Ditch.
This Order applies the priority date adopted for the Sanchez Ditch to each subfile irrigation water right it serves. The acequia-wide priority date does not apply to supplemental irrigation wells or springs, nor does it apply to individual subfile water rights previously denied by the Court. All water right claims denied have a priority date of "None." Subfile priority dates are listed in Exhibit A attached to this Order.
It is therefore ordered that the 1800 priority date adopted for Sanchez Ditch is applied to individual subfile water rights as set forth in Exhibit A. EXHIBIT A SANCHEZ DITCH Individual Subfile Priority Dates Subfile Number Priority Date
14.101A 1800 14.102 1800 14.102A 1800 14.103 1800 14.103A 1800 14.104 1800 14.105 1800 14.106 1800 14.106A 1800 14.107 1800 14.108 1800 14.109 1800 14.110 1800 14.111 1800 14.112 1800 14.113 1800 14.114 1800 14.115 1800 14.116 1800 15.11 1800 15.12 1800 15.13 1800 15.13A 1800 15.13B 1800 15.13C 1800 15.14 1800 15.15 1800 15.15A 1800 15.15B 1800 15.15C 1800 15.15D 1800 15.15E 1800 15.16 1800 15.17 1800 15.18 1800 15.19 1800