The state conservation agency has charged Crazy Mountain Ranch with purchasing water from an unauthorized Boulder source, among other violations, and urged the Sixth Judicial District Court to impose an $8,000 penalty fee.
From August through October, the City of Boulder sold nearly 1.14 million gallons of water to Bullock Contracting, which delivered the water to CMR in the Shields Valley. The ranch-resort, owned by the same parent company as the Yellowstone Club, faced a Department of Natural Resources and Conservation lawsuit in July for alleged illegal water use on its new golf course.
In the initial weeks of its water sales to Bullock, the City took the water from an irrigation well for which it lacked water rights. The DNRC discovered this after receiving a water use complaint from the McCauley Family, who ranch along Boulder’s southern rim, which spurred an investigation.
