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Southern Nevada Water Authority set to discuss whether to take decision to state Supreme Court

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 18, 2009 at 6:26 am

lincoln county mapFrom Emily Green at the Chance of Rain blog:

“Item 5 on the agenda for this Thursday’s board meeting of the Southern Nevada Water Authority calls for the directors to take an October 15, 2009 decision by a Nevada district judge Norman C. Robison to the state Supreme Court.

The Robison decision deemed a 2008 award of water to Las Vegas and the SNWA by the State Engineer of Nevada from three Lincoln County valleys ”arbitrary, oppressive and a manifest abuse of discretion.” It then vacated the award for water in the three valleys that are the key first staging grounds of a nearly 300-mile-long pipeline that Las Vegas plans to run into the heart of the state to pump rural groundwater. … “

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November 18, 2009 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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