VIDEO: Session 3, Part 4: Advances in Law

• Main Authors: Snow, Lester, Kropf, Ramsey, Cosens, Barb, Davidson, Will
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Colorado Law Scholarly Commons 2015
• Subjects: groundwater; water supply; water resources management; water resource management; historical water development; water law; California; current challenges; Swamp and Overflow Act; Central Valley Flood System; water system development; California water systems; runoff; Los Angeles Aqueduct; Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct; Mokelumne Aqueduct; Colorado River Aqueduct; Central Valley Project; State Water Project; California economy; unintended consequences; less reliable; increasing population; aging infrastructure; groundwater overdraft; degraded ecosystems; increasing conflict; uncertainty; climate change; global warming; sustainable water management; integrated water management; groundwater management; urban water use efficiency; stormwater capture; recycled water; reservoir reoperation; flood management; wetlands habitat; irrigated agriculture; groundwater supply wells; freshwater treatment plant; groundwater recharge basin; injection well; groundwater basin; reservoir conditions; Trinity Lake; Shasta Reservoir; Lake Oroville; Folsom Lake; New Melones; Don Pedro Reservoir; Exchequer Reservoir; San Luis Reservoir; Millerton Lake; Perris Lake; Castaic Lake; Pine Flat Reservoir; Drought Monitor; West; abnormally dry; moderate drought; severe drought; extreme drought; exceptional drought; seasonal drought outlook; Half Dome; groundwater storage; increasing use; surface supplies; groundwater demand; landowner conflicts; subsidence; increased drilling/pumping costs; taxpayers; farmers; coalitions; policy reform; reframe the debate; media statistics; An Evaluation of California Groundwater Management Planning; Recommendations for Sustainable Groundwater Management Developed Through a Stakeholder Dialogue; CWF; California Water Foundation; Groundwater Voices; 1961 Legislative Report; 1978 Commission Report; ACWA 2011 Report; ACWA 2014 Recommendations; CWF Recommendations; ACWA; Association of California Water Agencies; local empowerment; plan requirements; authorities; plan review; time frame; GSA; Groundwater Sustainability Agency; GSP; Groundwater Sustainability Plan; local managers; state intervention; jurisdiction; Water District A; Water District B; Water District C; SGMA; Sustainable Groundwater Management Act; implementation; State regulations; bond funding; drought pressure; water system interconnectivity; Wyoming; Big Horn River Adjudication; water conservation; drought; Wyoming Water Divisions; statutory adjudication; Water Division 1; Water Division 2; Water Division 3; Water Division 4; Torrington; Sheridan; Riverton; Cokeville; Water Division Map; state water rights; federal water rights; Western states; sovereignty; water allocation; appropriation; Winters v. United States; Indian tribes; Indian water rights; tribal water rights; Indian reservation; future use; McCarran Amendment; sovereign immunity; state adjudications; Arizona v. California; Practicably Irrigable Acreage standard; water rights adjudications; existing water rights; Indian federal reserved water rights; centralized listing; basin-wide general stream adjudications; policy issues; social issues; regional growth; interstate apportionment; riparian doctrine; prior appropriation doctrine; federal land ownership; shortages; water division 3 map; privately owned; state lands; Bureau of Indian Affairs; BIA; Bureau of Reclamation; BOR; Bureau of Land Management; BLM; U. S. Forest Service; USFS; National Park Service; NPS; non-Indian federal reserved rights; state-based rights; Special Master Teno Roncalio; First Special Master’s Report; Wyoming Supreme Court; Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; United States Supreme Court; Big Horn River; quantification; Walton Rights; Big Horn I; Big Horn II; Big Horn IV; Big Horn V; Big Horn VI; Super-Walton Rights; 899 P.2d 848; 48 P.3d 1040; federal project water; Big Horn III; 835 P.2d 273; Justice Michael Golden; Justice Thomas; water resources; State role; settlements; Snake River Basin Adjudication; SRBA; Idaho; Washington; Final Unified Decree; Northern Idaho Adjudication; NIA; Bear River Basin Adjudication; BRBA; Montana; Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission; RWRCC; Indian reservations; National Parks; National Forests; Wildlife Refuges; Wild and Scenic Rivers; Arizona; Joseph Feller; 49 Ariz. L. Rev. 440; water rights settlements; Kyl Center; Yakima River Basin Adjudication; Yakima Integrated Plan; Integrated Water Resource Management Plan; enhanced water supply; environmental benefits; population growth; water security; food security; environmental rights; agricultural use; municipal use; interstate water sharing; energy law; Columbia River Basin; Oregon; 1948 flood storage; flood control; hydropower; dams; Canada; Canadian Entitlement; Northwest-California Intertie; Bonneville Power Administration; BPA; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority; BC Hydro; CRT; Columbia River Treaty; unilateral termination; Canadian project; Federal project; non-federal project; Hungry Horse Dam; Kerr Dam; Thompson Falls Dam; Box Canyon Dam; Albeni Falls Dam; Cabinet Gorge Dam; Libby Dam; Duncan Lake Dam; Kootenay Lake Dam; Coeur d’Alene Lake Dam; Brownlee Dam; Oxbow Dam; Hells Canyon Dam; Dworshak Dam; Lower Granite Dam; Little Goose Dam; Lower Monumental Dam; Ice Harbor Dam; Mica Dam; Revelstroke Dam; Arrow Lakes Dam; Grand Coulee Dam; Chief Joseph Dam; Wells Dam; Rocky Reach Dam; Rock Island Dam; Chelan Dam; Priest Rapids Dam; Wanapum Dam; McNavy Dam; John Day Dam; The Dalles Dam; Bonneville Dam; Columbia River Governance; UCCRG; Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance; cross-border dialogue; http://www.columbiarivergovernance.org; research; energy demand; 50th percentile flow timing; water deficit; impacts of dams; hydrograph; virgin flows; observed flows; salmon habitat; Chum Salmon; Chinook Salmon; Steelhead; Sockeye Salmon; Coho Salmon; White Sturgeon; Bull Trout; values; empowerment; capacity; Constitution Act 1982 Part II; Aboriginal Peoples of Canada; indigenous peoples; Columbia Basin Tribes; Upper Columbia United Tribes; UCUT; Canadian First Nations; Columbia Basin Trust; equitable benefits; cultural resources; natural resources; sovereign parties; ecosystem; spring flow; summer flow; carbon emissions; review team; Department of State; transparency; public input; Provincial Review Committee; Congressional Delegation; anadromous fish; reintroduction; adaptive mechanisms; fish passage; international law; domestic law; international treaties; Water Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs; indigenous participation; treaty negotiation; treaty talks; Northwest Power and Conservation Council; acequia; irrigation ditch; Colorado; University of Colorado Law School; Acequia Assistance Project; water bearer; earthen irrigation ditch; hand built; gravity fed; communal resource; irrigation technology; right of thirst; irrigator; parciante; labor; equitable distribution; need; communal maintenance; communities; scarcity; mayordomo; ditch rider; operation and maintenance of acequias; voting; one vote; conflict resolution; norm enforcement; low-impact agriculture; habitat for wildlife; adjudicated water rights; non-transferable; inalienable water rights; alternative model of water administration; cultural resource; historical resource; Spanish settlement; Mexican settlement; Middle Rio Grande; acequia communities; Northern New Mexico; Southern Colorado; Costilla County; Conejos County; Huerfano County; Las Animas County; territorial law of Colorado; priority of acequias; Benjamin Eaton; water developer; San Luis; oldest town in Colorado; acequia community; La Acequia de la Gente de San Luis; San Luis People’s Ditch; informal; unrecorded; written rules; Colorado water law; priority-based distribution; Acequia Recognition Act; C.R.S. 7-42-101.5; 2009; Colorado legislature; formal recognition of acequias; local economy; acequia ditch corporation; acequia ditch association; business organization; bylaws; first right of refusal; Catlin provision; Sangre de Cristo Acequia Association; Getches-Wilkinson Center; pro bono; low-cost legal services; Colorado Open Lands; water rights documentation; adjudicated rights; educational materials; handbook; drafting bylaws; incorporation; water rights applications; Annual Congresso de las Acequias; documenting water rights; water rights research; Freehold Decree; Hallett Decree; Freehold Rights; Sangre de Cristo Grant; Charles Beaubein; Rio Culebra; William Gilpin; United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company; Costilla Estate; Moses Hallett; first dean of Colorado law; 197 cfs; lawsuit; consent decrees; 91 cfs; Vigil v. Swanson; Colorado District Court; 1917; State Engineer; abandonment list; litigation; equitable settlement process; Allan Beezley; Sarah Krakoff; Peter Nichols; Sarah Parmar; Marie Vicek; Blake Busse; Julia Guarino; Agriculture Law; Aquaculture and Fisheries; Business Organizations Law; Courts; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration; Energy and Utilities Law; Energy Policy; Environmental Law; Environmental Policy; Government Contracts; Hydraulic Engineering; Hydrology; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; Natural Resources and Conservation; Natural Resources Law; Natural Resources Management and Policy; Oil; Gas; and Energy; Public Policy; State and Local Government Law; Technology and Innovation; Urban Studies and Planning; Animas; Bia; Bor; British Columbia; Davidson; Hallett; Horn River; Kenney; Kerr; Lester; Moses; Munk; Reservoir Lake; Sockeye; Teno; Wilkinson; First Nations
• Online Access: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/innovations-in-managing-western-water/31; https://youtu.be/B-sfuj6iASY

VIDEO: SESSION THREE: Bringing it All Together: Familiar Challenges, New Approaches Moderator: Doug Kenney, Getches-Wilkinson Center 1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Advances in Law Regulating Groundwater Use in California . Finally: Lester Snow, California Water Foundation Wrapping Up the Big Horn Adjudication: Lessons after 38 Years and 20,000 Claims: Ramsey Kropf, Deputy Solicitor for Water Resources, DOI Challenges and Opportunities of the Expiring Columbia River Treaty: Barb Cosens, University of Idaho Empowering the Acequias: Fixing What Wasn’t Broken: Will Davidson, Acequia Project