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House Bill 97-1214 protect SLV 'A:r~sian lJressure · Bill Summary injury in any plnn for augmen- aquifers will materially injure other words. you replace the aged to leave the Committee at (Note: This summary tation. vested s urface and under- groundwater used with the 13-0 in favor. Robert Krassa is applies to this. bill as intro- ground water-rights. Wate r Di- same amount of surface water also a legal consultant for the duced and does not necessar- vision 3 is the location of many for augmentation (replace- Parker Water and Sanitation ily reflect any amendments This bill is making it's of the state's important wetland ment). District. The Parker Water and which may be subsequently way through the state legisla- a reas a nd wi ldlife refuges Stockman's Water Sanitation District has come adopted.) ture as this newsletter goes to which. in part, are supplied Company has hired a group of out in recent weeks saying Requires judicial ap- print. In short, it addresses the water from the artisan or con- lobbyists to defeat this bill. The there is an interest in 20,000 proval of a plan for augmenlll- hydrogeologic relationship be- fined aquifer." reason they are so threatened acre feet of the Stockman's tion that effects the replace- tween the unconfined and con- It goes on to say that is because they are claiming Water proposal . ment of new g roundwater fined aquifer systems and their there is "insufficient compre- "new water" that is "unappro- Necdl~s to say, House depletions in Water Division 3 relationship to surface streams hensive data and knowledge of priated" and their augmenta- BiiV97- 12 14 docs have its va- that decreases hydrostatic pres- in Water Division 3 (the Snn the relationship between sur- t ion (or replacement) pla n riety of supporters including:
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