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Mulroy responds to activists’ claims of exclusion from upcoming hearing

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 8, 2008 at 10:52 pm

From KCPW in Las Vegas:

Activists in Utah and Nevada allege the Southern Nevada Water Authority is trying to bar the public from an upcoming water hearing to determine water rights to a vast underground aquifer spanning the border near Snake Valley, Utah. Not true, says Pat Mulroy, the water authority’s general manager. “Any allusion to, or correlation, to say that this is an attempt to keep the public out of the process is simply not true,” Mulroy says.

A meeting is scheduled to determine the amount of water the State Engineer will let the water authority take out of the aquifer under Snake Valley.

“There is a number that is known of what the State Engineer will allow Southern Nevada take out of Snake Valley,” Mulroy says. “Then all the hyperbole, all the exaggerated numbers will have been whittled down to a number to the one under consideration that the State Engineer will even consider.”

Mulroy says a hearing scheduled for July 15 is an administrative pre-hearing and public testimony over the groundwater project will be accepted at a later date.

Read the rest of this story from KCPW by clicking here.

July 8, 2008 · Filed Under Las Vegas

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