DENVER—The city of Aurora has filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed against the government in a water deal.
The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District filed a lawsuit in October in an effort to block a deal that would allow Aurora to continue storing and purchasing water from the Arkansas River basin for the next 40 years.
The conservancy district is concerned the deal, which allows Aurora to store water in Fryingpan-Arkansas Project reservoirs, could strain resources for an already choked river basin.
Defendants in the district’s lawsuit included the Bureau of Reclamation and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, but it did not name Aurora.
The city sought to join the case as a defendant-intervenor and said in court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court that the district and defendants did not object.
