Concerning the Office of the State Engineer's Approval of the Plan of Water Management for the Special Improvement…

Summary

The court affirmed the water court’s orders and judgment upholding the State Engineer’s and Subdistrict’s approval of the 2012 Annual Replacement Plan. It held that previously approved methodology could not be reconsidered, that an annual replacement plan need not be stayed while objections are pending, that Closed Basin Project water was an adequate and suitable replacement source, and that the treatment of augmentation-plan wells did not invalidate the plan. No separate opinions were issued.