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Posted on 03/20/2021 10:08:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Nevada town founded a century ago by pioneers lured to the West by the promise of free land and cheap water in the desert is trying to block the U.S. government from renovating a 115-year-old earthen irrigation canal with a plan that would eliminate leaking water that local residents long have used to fill their own domestic wells.
A federal judge denied the town of Fernley’s bid last year to delay plans to line parts of the Truckee Canal with concrete to make it safer after it burst and flooded nearly 600 homes in 2008.
Now, lawyers for the town a half-hour east of Reno have filed a new lawsuit accusing the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of illegally failing to consider the expected harm to its municipal water supply and hundreds of private well users who tap into the groundwater based on what they say are binding water allotments, some dating to World War II.
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Actually they need to give up their century long theft of water from Indians. Pyramid Lake has dropped over 80 feet from lack of that water.
Don’t understand, why is Washington messing with Nevada? It’s like someone who can’t keep their own shit together messing with u.
Western water rights are an interesting thing.
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Whisky’s for drinkin’
Water’s for fightin’...
That sums it up well.
Decades of court cases and Congress action/inaction:
http://www.nvbar.org/wp-content/uploads/NevadaLawyer_July2016_Online_TruckeeRiver.pdf
By that logic you need to raze your home and return the land to the Paiutes.
Yes, the history of the West is about water, and less about gold, Mexicans, or indians.
Actually the whole region has dried up since the end of the last ice age. Lake Lahotan used to cover most of northern Nevada.
Yup.
Before I actually moved into the Great Basin, I thought it would be a grand idea to fill it with freshwater.
A large inland sea would provide a moisture source for everyone east of the Sierras, providing rain and irrigation to what has been a lush area in the past.
A refilled Lake Lahotan might be a good compromise...
I have a couple of 5 gallon buckets I can loan. Well, rent out. :-) Butt, apparently our ‘mare’ has no problem pushing to build a s**t load of new houses. Heck, the city council just okayed a bond issue for 4,500 houses out by Bordertown/Cold Springs on 395. As far as 395? No worries we’ll address that some day. On the south end of town they have given the okay to build on what to me looks like wetlands. HUH? T the west......Verdi used to be desirable out by Boomtown. Now the hillsides are filled with houses.
A couple of 5 gallon buckets?
Kewl!
I can fill my hat!
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