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Home / HRBWA News and Updates / District Court judge strikes down state-backed groundwater market for violating “first in time, first in right” rule

District Court judge strikes down state-backed groundwater market for violating “first in time, first in right” rule

District Court judge strikes down state-backed groundwater market for violating “first in time, first in right” rule

May 1, 2020 By admin

By Daniel Rothberg, The Nevada Independent, May 1, 2020

The ruling filed April 27 by Seventh Judicial District Judge Gary D. Fairman  stops the groundwater management plan for the Diamond Valley Hydrographic Basin (07-153) Eureka County which was approved by the State Engineer on January 11, 2019 pursuant to SE Order No. 1302.

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