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State wants Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider water rights ruling

Posted by: Maven on February 10, 2010 at 6:31 am

From the Las Vegas Sun:

“The state is going to ask the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that could impact thousands of water rights in rural counties.

Allen Biaggi, director of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, said the decision of the court could affect water rights back to 1947.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority also intends to ask the Supreme Court to take another look at the ruling, which could significantly delay plans to pipe water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas.

At issue is a Supreme Court ruling that state engineer Tracy Taylor violated the law in 2007 when he approved rights for the water authority to withdraw 40,000 acre feet of water year from Spring Valley in Eastern Nevada. … “

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February 10, 2010 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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