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Scott Hummer, water commissioner for District 58 in the Yampa River basin, checks out a recently installed Parshall flume on an irrigation ditch in this August 2020 photo. Compliance with measuring device requirements has been moving more slowly than state engineers would like.
Photo by Heather Sackett / Aspen Journalism
ASPEN Colorado officials are preparing for a future with less water by developing rules and guidance for water users to measure how much they are taking from streams.
Colorado Division of Water Resources Engineer Kevin Rein is planning a rule-making process on measurement devices that includes stakeholder input.
Although state engineers in each water division have the authority to enforce the requirement of measurement devices, Rein said drafting more formal rules through an administrative rule-making process would affirm that authority. ....

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