From the Vail Daily (Sarah Mausolf):
Developers filed for water rights for the project with the Colorado water court in 2005, [Dave Kleinkopf, a principal for developer Crave Real Estate] said. Several parties that use water on the upper Eagle River, including the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, filed as objectors to the case. Until recently, it had been unclear whether the various interest groups would reach an agreement over the water rights or the case would go to trial in water court. A trial could have put the water rights for the project in jeopardy and would have cost developers a significant amount of money, Kleinkopf said.
Water for the future Battle Mountain project will come from a proposed 1, 210 acre-foot reservoir at Bolts Lake, south of Minturn…
Water rights for the project came through a settlement signed by the town of Minturn, Battle Mountain, Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, Vail Associates, Inc. and Eagle Park Reservoir Company, along with the Arrowhead, Beaver Creek, Berry Creek, Eagle-Vail, Edwards, Holland Creek, and Red Sky Ranch metropolitan districts. The settlement pertains to four cases filed with the water court between 2005 and 2007…
The agreement also granted Minturn water rights for future growth in town, independent from the Battle Mountain project. The water district will give Minturn access to as much as 50 acre-feet of the district’s storage water in either Eagle Park Reservoir or Homestake Reservoir, which are upstream of Minturn.