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Vegas water agency vows fight for groundwater plan

Posted by: Maven on October 29, 2009 at 10:07 pm

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

“Southern Nevada water administrators plan to challenge a judge’s ruling that blocks a multibillion-dollar plan to tap groundwater from a vast swath of eastern Nevada and pipe it to Las Vegas, an authority official said Wednesday.

“It is our intention to appeal,” Southern Nevada Water Authority spokesman Scott Huntley said. He said authority board members will be asked next month to approve taking the case to the Nevada Supreme Court.

Senior Judge Norman Robison issued a strongly worded order last week that the state’s top water official abused his discretion in approving the pumping plan in 2008.

Robison, of Gardnerville, ruled that State Engineer Tracy Taylor acted “arbitrarily, capriciously and oppressively” in granting the Las Vegas-based water authority permission to tap underground water in the Cave, Delamar and Dry Lake valleys in central Lincoln County. …”

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October 29, 2009 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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