Cases and Materials on Water Law

by GOULD

• ISBN13: 9780314233080
• ISBN10: 0314233083
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: West Group

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Table of Cases	xi
Introduction to Water Law	1	(17)
Gould, Water Rights Systems	1	(3)
Trelease, Federal-State Relations in Water Law	4	(2)
Trelease, New Water Legislation: Drafting for Development, Efficient Allocation and Environmental Protection	6	(2)
Overview of Private Property Rights in Water	8	(4)
Meyers, A Historical and Functional Analysis of the Appropriation System	12	(3)
Wilkinson, Western Water Law in Transition	15	(3)
Prior Appropriation	18	(214)
Origin	18	(6)
Irwin v. Phillips	18	(6)
Attributes	24	(91)
Diversion	24	(1)
Nebraska Game & Parks Commission v. The 25 Corporation, Inc	24	(5)
Beneficial Use	29	(1)
State of Idaho, Department of Parks v. Idaho Department of Water Administration	29	(5)
State of Washington Department of Ecology v. Grimes	34	(7)
Imperial Irrigation District v. State Water Resources Control Board	41	(7)
City of Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation Co	48	(6)
Priority	54	(1)
City & County of Denver v. Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District	54	(9)
State ex rel. Cary v. Cochran	63	(7)
Phillips v. Gardner	70	(3)
Cache La Poudre Water Users Ass'n v. Glacier View Meadows	73	(6)
Waters Subject To Appropriation	79	(1)
Water: The Yearbook of Agriculture	79	(1)
State v. Hiber	80	(6)
R.J.A., Inc. v. Water Users Association of District No. 6	86	(8)
Geographic Restrictions On Use	94	(1)
Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch Co	94	(5)
Appurtenance	99	(1)
Salt River Valley Users' Association v. Kovacovich	99	(4)
Protection of Means of Diversion	103	(1)
State ex rel. Crowley v. District Court	103	(7)
Access	110	(1)
Mougey Farms v. Kaspari	110	(5)
Regulation	115	(58)
The Permit System	115	(1)
Wyoming Hereford Ranch v. Hammond Packing Co	115	(8)
Availability of Water	123	(1)
Lower Colorado River Authority v. Texas Department of water Resources	123	(8)
Public Interest	131	(1)
Young & Norton v. Hinderlider	131	(5)
Shokal v. Dunn	136	(13)
United Plainsmen Association v. North Dakota State Water Conservation Commission	149	(7)
Adjudication and Enforcement	156	(1)
Farm Investment Co. v. Carpenter	156	(11)
Rettkowski v. Department of Ecology	167	(6)
Loss	173	(19)
Abandonment	173	(1)
People v. City of Thornton	173	(6)
Forfeiture	179	(1)
Rencken v. Young	179	(7)
Prescription	186	(1)
Hammond v. Johnson	186	(6)
Transfer	192	(23)
Farmers Highline Canal & Reservoir Co. v. City of Golden	192	(9)
Bonham v. Morgan	201	(7)
City of Thornton v. The Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co	208	(7)
Reuse	215	(17)
Department of Ecology v. Bureau of Reclamation	215	(4)
Fuss v. Franks	219	(4)
Thayer v. City of Rawlins	223	(9)
Riparian Rights	232	(89)
Basis of Right	232	(10)
Anaheim Union Water Co. v. Fuller	232	(6)
Thompson v. Enz	238	(4)
Reasonable Use	242	(26)
Harris v. Brooks	242	(9)
Botton v. State	251	(8)
Evans v. Merriweather	259	(4)
Farrell v. Richards	263	(5)
Nonriparian Uses: Prescription, Grant, and Municipal Supply	268	(22)
Prescription	268	(1)
Pabst v. Finmand	268	(6)
Grant	274	(1)
Duckworth v. Watsonville Water & Light Co	274	(1)
Pyle v. Gilbert	275	(2)
State v. Apfelbacher	277	(3)
Municipal Supply	280	(1)
Adams v. Greenwich Water Co	280	(5)
Hudson River Fisherman's Association v. Williams	285	(5)
State Regulation	290	(12)
Muench v. Public Service Commission	290	(4)
Village of Tequesta v. Jupiter Inlet Corporation	294	(8)
Abolition and Combination	302	(19)
Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch Co	302	(1)
Lux v. Haggin	302	(7)
Franco-American Charolaise, Ltd. v. Oklahoma Water Resources Board	309	(12)
Groundwater	321	(94)
Doctrines	321	(19)
Crosby, A Layman's Guide to Groundwater Hydrology	321	(5)
State v. Michels Pipeline Construction, Inc	326	(9)
State v. Dority	335	(5)
Problems	340	(75)
Managing Storage: Safe Yield, Overdraft, and Related Concepts	340	(1)
Crosby, A Layman's Guide to Groundwater Hydrology	340	(5)
Fundingsland v. Colorado Ground Water Commission	345	(6)
Doherty v. Oregon Water Resources Director	351	(7)
City of Pasadena v. City of Alhambra	358	(5)
Town of Chino Valley v. City of Prescott	363	(8)
Friendswood Development Co. v. Smith-Southwest Industries, Inc	371	(5)
Protection of Means of Diversion	376	(1)
Crosby, A Layman's Guide to Groundwater Hydrology	376	(2)
Current Creek Irrigation Co. v. Andrews	378	(8)
Physically Connected Groundwater and Surface Water	386	(1)
National Water Commission, Water Policies for the Future	386	(3)
Hubbard v. State, Department of Ecology	389	(4)
Templeton v. Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District	393	(3)
Alamosa-La Jara Water Users Protection Association v. Gould	396	(10)
Conjunctive Management of Groundwater and Surface Water	406	(1)
Introduction	406	(3)
Alameda County Water District v. Niles Sand & Gravel Co	409	(6)
Water Distribution Organizations	415	(47)
Private Corporations	415	(18)
Jacobucci v. District Court	415	(7)
Badger v. Brooklyn Canal Company	422	(7)
Yucaipa Water Co. No. 1 v. Public Utilities Commission	429	(4)
Public Agencies	433	(29)
Sullivan v. Blakesley	433	(7)
In re Reno Press Brick Co	440	(3)
People ex rel. Rogers v. Letford	443	(6)
Millis v. Board of County Commissioners	449	(3)
Ball v. James	452	(6)
Fulghum v. Selma	458	(4)
Interstate Allocation	462	(53)
Equitable Apportionment	462	(28)
Kansas v. Colorado	462	(4)
Wyoming v. Colorado	466	(4)
New Jersey v. New York	470	(3)
Nebraska v. Wyoming	473	(9)
Colorado v. New Mexico	482	(4)
Colorado v. New Mexico	486	(4)
Interstate Compacts	490	(10)
Hinderlider v. La Plata River & Cherry Creek Ditch Co	490	(10)
Congressional Apportionment	500	(15)
Arizona v. California	500	(15)
Public Rights and Environmental Protection	515	(90)
Public Rights	515	(34)
Navigation	515	(1)
Kansas v. Meek	515	(11)
State v. Bleck	526	(2)
Public Trust Doctrine	528	(1)
Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois	528	(8)
National Audubon Society v. Superior Court of Alpine County	536	(13)
Environmental Protection	549	(56)
Introductory Note	549	(1)
Environmental Assessment	549	(1)
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969	549	(3)
Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committees, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission	552	(3)
Bear, NEPA at 19: A Primer on an ``Old'' Law with Solutions to New Problems	555	(5)
Strycker's Bay Neighborhood Council v. Karlen	560	(5)
Water Quality Regulation	565	(1)
Introductory Note	565	(2)
The Clean Water Act	567	(7)
City of Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation Company	574	(8)
Wetlands Regulation (Clean Water Act Section 404)	582	(1)
Riverside Irrigation District v. Andrews	582	(11)
Endangered Species	593	(1)
United States v. Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District	593	(12)
Federal Water Law	605	(114)
Constitutional Powers	605	(26)
Kaiser Aetna v. United States	605	(8)
United States v. Rands	613	(6)
Kaiser Aetna v. United States	619	(4)
Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas	623	(8)
Federal Legislative Programs (and Preemption of State Law)	631	(40)
Licensing and Permitting of Nonfederal Projects	631	(1)
First Iowa Hydro-Electric Cooperative v. Federal Power Commission	631	(9)
PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Department of Ecology	640	(8)
Construction and Management of Federal Projects	648	(1)
California v. United States	648	(15)
O'Neil v. United States	663	(8)
Reserved Water Rights	671	(48)
Indian Reserved Rights	671	(1)
Winters v. United States	671	(10)
Colville Confederated Tribes v. Walton	681	(8)
Federal Reserved Rights	689	(1)
Cappart v. United States	689	(4)
United States v. New Mexico	693	(11)
Adjudication and Administration	704	(1)
Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United States	704	(9)
United States v. Anderson	713	(6)
Index	719