By Scott WilloughbyThe Denver Post

"I'm very pleased with how things have turned out. We've been working on this for a while now," said Mely Whiting, counsel for Trout Unlimited. "This is the right way of doing things, the right way to develop some of these water projects. It's a compromise, but it shows that you can do these projects in a smart way."

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