The Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada on January 24th granted a stay of the State Engineer’s Order 1329 pending a decision on the merits. The Court found that the Petitioner, Buttonpoint Limited Partnership, may incur irreparable harm should the stay be denied and that Order 1329 is actually more harmful to the public absent a stay, because it relies on an unfinished groundwater model, subjecting the public to a fundamentally unproven methodology for calculating capture and any permanent effect it may have on existing and future water rights.

Click here to read the District Court’s Order- Staying SEs Order 1329 Pending Disposition.