The Nevada Supreme reversed itself on title to vested water rights on public land. The court’s seven-person panel unanimously agreed that title to vested water rights established for grazing purposes upon public land is determined by priority of possession of the water right. In other words, the water right belongs to whomever can trace its […]
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The ongoing efforts to protect a central Washington aquifer and the economic interests jeopardized by its steady decline were the focus of the Columbia Basin Development League’s Conference and 54th Annual Meeting, which was held November 1 at Moses Lake. The CBDL, which identifies itself as a non-profit organization representing the interests of stakeholders of
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In a move he hopes will ease the most arduous administrative burden faced by the Idaho Department of Water Resources, Director Gary Spackman has created the state’s largest groundwater management area, encompassing the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer (ESPA) region. Hoping “to stop the drop” of the aquifer level, which has experienced an annual rate
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The latest chapter in Schroeder Law Offices’ long-standing relationship with the Idaho Rural Water Association can be found in the Fall 2015 edition of IRWA’s quarterly publication, The Water Gram. In it, Laura Schroeder and James Browitt discuss the current status of Idaho’s ambitious adjudication process, which has worked its way from the Snake River
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The Washington Department of Ecology has started work on updating the state’s Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) general permit, and is calling for public input in the formative stages of this process. Ecology is the state’s control agency, as authorized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for activities falling under the jurisdiction of the Clean
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North Idaho Adjudication Ramping Up With Idaho set to wrap up a 27-year water-rights adjudication of unprecedented scale nationwide, water administrators are gradually shifting their focus to the state’s northern basins and a procedure expected to take only a fraction of the time as the Snake River Basin Adjudication (SRBA). The SRBA — involving all
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