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Ground water management under the appropriation doctrine. Research technical completion report, 14-08-0001-G1419-02 Item Info
![The purpose of this research is to better understand the characteristics of ground water management under the prior appropriation doctrine in the western United States. The general objective is to summarize legal and administrative controls on ground water use in eight wester states and to compare the impacts of these controls on ground water systems. The history of groundwater management in the states of Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona suggests a temporal development pattern of management stages. Different management stages may be identified depending on whether the state considers the resource as renewable or nonrenewable. [...] State water management agencies often do not utilize fully the statutory powers which are available. Difficulty is encountered in applying the priority principal to controlling ground water pumpage because of the storage or stock aspects of the resource. Most states have developed management area programs to identify areas of ground water overuse and to reduce pumpage. However, in practice, the states have universally utilized the designations to limit the development of ground water by preventing new appropriations rather than achieving the statutory goals of a recharge-discharge balance and maintenance of reasonable and economically feasible pumping lifts.](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/iwdl/small/iwdl-198811_sm.jpg)
- Title:
- Ground water management under the appropriation doctrine. Research technical completion report, 14-08-0001-G1419-02
- Authors:
- Ralston, Dale; Bruhl, Elliot J.
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1988-08
- Description:
- The purpose of this research is to better understand the characteristics of ground water management under the prior appropriation doctrine in the western United States. The general objective is to summarize legal and administrative controls on ground water use in eight wester states and to compare the impacts of these controls on ground water systems. The history of groundwater management in the states of Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona suggests a temporal development pattern of management stages. Different management stages may be identified depending on whether the state considers the resource as renewable or nonrenewable. [...] State water management agencies often do not utilize fully the statutory powers which are available. Difficulty is encountered in applying the priority principal to controlling ground water pumpage because of the storage or stock aspects of the resource. Most states have developed management area programs to identify areas of ground water overuse and to reduce pumpage. However, in practice, the states have universally utilized the designations to limit the development of ground water by preventing new appropriations rather than achieving the statutory goals of a recharge-discharge balance and maintenance of reasonable and economically feasible pumping lifts.
- Subjects:
- Water rights Appropriation Water management Groundwater availability Groundwater recharge Groundwater management
- Collection:
- IWRRI
- Series:
- Water for Idaho
- IWRRI number:
- 198811
- Rights:
- Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
- Publisher:
- Idaho Water Resources Research Institute; University of Idaho
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Idaho
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Cataloger:
- KIT
- Date Digitized:
- 2017-09-07
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Ground water management under the appropriation doctrine. Research technical completion report, 14-08-0001-G1419-02", Idaho Waters Digital Library, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/iwdl/items/iwdl-198811.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/