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Hundreds File Court Challenges Against State Engineer Water Ruling
April 23, 2012
GREAT BASIN WATER NETWORK
More than 300 local governments, Indian tribes, ranchers, farmers, businesses, environmental groups, and families and individuals from across Nevada and Utah filed petitions for judicial review appealing the Nevada State Engineer’s decision to allow the Southern Nevada Water Authority to pump and pipe away up to 27 billion gallons annually from rural valleys through SNWA’s massive proposed Pipeline Project.
The appeal to State District Court casts further financial and legal uncertainty over a massive (and many observers say unnecessary) project that would cost well over $15 billion and cause devastating environmental impacts in an area of the Intermountain West larger than the states of New Jersey and Massachusetts combined. Read more >>
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