ELR Citation: ELR 20791
No(s). 99-16812, -16817 (9th Cir. Jul 5, 2001)

The court reverses and remands a district court decision that a town had neither forfeited nor abandoned water rights to 280 acre-feet of water from a federal water reclamation project on a Nevada lake. After acquiring surrounding water rights that had been historically used for irrigation, the town...