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Handbook for the economic evaluation of application for appropriation of surface and groundwater in the State of Idaho Item Info
![The "Swan Falls Agreement" signed on October 25, 1984 by Governor John Evans and Attorney General Jim Jones for the State of Idaho and James Bruce, Chief Executive Officer of the Idaho Power Company established a framework for resolving a controversy that has been simmering for sixty years. Citizens of the Upper Snake Valley in Idaho became concerned in the early nineteen-twenties that a downstream water right for hydroelectric power generation (a non-consumptive, in-stream use) could stand in the way of future upstream diversionary uses (such as for irrigation and industry. [...] Increasing demands for electricity in [the] water service area, much of which came from pumping for irrigation caused the Idaho Power Company in recent years to seek additional power sources..., and resulted in the Company filing suit against the State to determine the status of water rights... The Idaho Supreme Court held in 1982 that the Company's Swan Falls hydroelectric plant water right was not subordinate to the upstream developments that had occurred over the intervening decades, which resulted in an overappropriation of the Snake River. Legislative attempts to resolve the issue were stalemated. Parties entered into negotiations to attempt a complete settlement of the water rights controversy. The State of Idaho has commissioned this study to provide guidance for its officials in implementing the economic component of the Public Interest Criteria [of the Swan Falls Agreement]. The study authors were directed to draw upon the currently available economic literature to ensure that the methodologies proposed are well-grounded in "generally-accepted" economic principles. [...] Submitted to the Snake River Studies Advisory Committee, State of Idaho.](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/iwdl/small/iwdl-198812_sm.jpg)
- Title:
- Handbook for the economic evaluation of application for appropriation of surface and groundwater in the State of Idaho
- Authors:
- Young, Robert A.; Howe, Charles W.
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1988-02
- Description:
- The "Swan Falls Agreement" signed on October 25, 1984 by Governor John Evans and Attorney General Jim Jones for the State of Idaho and James Bruce, Chief Executive Officer of the Idaho Power Company established a framework for resolving a controversy that has been simmering for sixty years. Citizens of the Upper Snake Valley in Idaho became concerned in the early nineteen-twenties that a downstream water right for hydroelectric power generation (a non-consumptive, in-stream use) could stand in the way of future upstream diversionary uses (such as for irrigation and industry. [...] Increasing demands for electricity in [the] water service area, much of which came from pumping for irrigation caused the Idaho Power Company in recent years to seek additional power sources..., and resulted in the Company filing suit against the State to determine the status of water rights... The Idaho Supreme Court held in 1982 that the Company's Swan Falls hydroelectric plant water right was not subordinate to the upstream developments that had occurred over the intervening decades, which resulted in an overappropriation of the Snake River. Legislative attempts to resolve the issue were stalemated. Parties entered into negotiations to attempt a complete settlement of the water rights controversy. The State of Idaho has commissioned this study to provide guidance for its officials in implementing the economic component of the Public Interest Criteria [of the Swan Falls Agreement]. The study authors were directed to draw upon the currently available economic literature to ensure that the methodologies proposed are well-grounded in "generally-accepted" economic principles. [...] Submitted to the Snake River Studies Advisory Committee, State of Idaho.
- Subjects:
- Water rights Appropriation Water management Economic evaluation Public policy
- Location:
- Snake River Basin; Southern Idaho
- Latitude:
- 43.243
- Longitude:
- -116.379
- Collection:
- Boise Basin
- Series:
- Water for Idaho
- IWRRI number:
- 198812
- 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:
- "Handbook for the economic evaluation of application for appropriation of surface and groundwater in the State of Idaho", Idaho Waters Digital Library, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/iwdl/items/iwdl-198812.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/