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Nevada State Engineer joins water appeal: Authority challenging ruling that stopped order to allow pumping of water

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 21, 2009 at 8:25 am

From the Las Vegas Review Journal:

“The state’s top water regulator has decided to join the Southern Nevada Water Authority in appealing a court ruling that dealt a blow to the authority’s plans to tap groundwater in Lincoln County.

Spokesman Bob Conrad said the state engineer’s office filed its notice of appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court on Friday.

At issue is District Judge Norman Robison’s Oct. 15 decision to strike down a July 2008 order from State Engineer Tracy Taylor that cleared the authority to pump more than 6 billion gallons of groundwater a year from Cave, Delamar and Dry Lake valleys in central Lincoln County.

Those three watersheds represent the first phase of the authority’s proposal to tap groundwater from as far as 250 miles away in White Pine County and pipe it south to supplement Las Vegas amid drought along the Colorado River. … “

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November 21, 2009 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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