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Interim Groundwater Policy Bear and Malad River Drainages Within Water Right Area 29

Learn about the policy regulating water use in area 29, focusing on the hydrologic connection between groundwater and surface water, protecting prior water rights, and the need for beneficial water usage.

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Interim Groundwater Policy Bear and Malad River Drainages Within Water Right Area 29

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  1. Interim Groundwater Policy Bear and Malad River Drainages Within Water Right Area 29

  2. Background • Hydrologic connection between groundwater and surface water • Need to protect prior water rights • Need to beneficially use water

  3. Area Boundaries

  4. Interim Policy • New Applications to Appropriate • Open to Individual family domestic filings • Indoor use of 1 family (0.45 acre-feet) • 0.25 acres of irrigation (1.0 acre-feet) • Stock watering up to 10 equivalent livestock units (0.28 acre-feet) • Subject to local interference issues • Larger applications will be held pending the results of the study.

  5. Interim Policy • Applications to Appropriate filed prior to policy, • may be held pending the results of the study, or • may be acted on based on available information. • Change applications will be considered on their own merits • Policy Effective April 23, 2012

  6. Pending Applications

  7. Pending Applications

  8. Interim Policy Questions?

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