Some shareholders have sued the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association, contending they aren’t receiving their fair share of irrigation water and their livelihoods are being harmed.

Eleven people joined as plaintiffs in the suit, filed in late August. But two of those people are no longer a part of it because they aren’t shareholders and lack legal standing, while a shareholder was added in their place.

The plaintiffs have been “deprived of consistent and proportional water deliveries during critical irrigation periods since 2022,” which is when new association management took over, the suit says.

Over that period plaintiffs also have been deprived of water owed to them based on priority water rights, the suit says.

“These failures have occurred even in years with above-average sno

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