May 21, 2024
IDWR’s Development of a Ground Water Management Plan for the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer
A prior alert provided an overview of various administrative matters before the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) that share a common theme: increasing the regulation of pumping by junior ground water users along the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA), under its conjunctive management authority, to protect the rights of senior surface water users. This alert focuses on one of those ongoing IDWR matters: the development of a Ground Water Management Plan (GWMP) for the ESPA Ground Water Management Area (ESPA-GWMA) … Read More
Written by Maximilian C. Bricker