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Storey County counsel recommends no action on multiple water‑right change applications citing errors
Summary
Legal counsel told the board that several applications to change points of diversion or manner of use (filed largely by TMWA and others) contained erroneous descriptions; the commission declined to act on the listed applications pending corrected filings.
At its April 7 meeting the Storey County Board heard a series of agenda items asking for recommendations to the Nevada State Engineer on multiple applications to change points of diversion, places of use or manner of use for existing permits and claims. Storey County’s legal counsel on water matters, Steve King, reviewed each application and recommended the county take no action because the filings contained erroneous legal descriptions or other incompletions.
The applications reviewed included (by agenda item number): Application 92313 (a change of about 4.5 acre‑feet from Permit 77478), 92314 (about 4.7 acre‑feet by Truckee Meadows Water Authority, described as changing to municipal uses), 92317 (about 3 acre‑feet), 92616 (roughly 12+ acre‑feet on Claim 244), 93730 (a change tied to about 161 acre‑feet in Spanish Springs to a nearby replacement well), 93731, 94213 (change from quasi‑domestic to municipal and a point change from Boomtown well 9 to well 13), 94270, 94300 (applications by Robert and Elizabeth Coons to change 9.3 acre‑feet from recreational to quasi use), and 94812 (about 81.58 acre‑feet filed by TRWA). On each item Mr. King advised that the application descriptions were erroneous or incomplete and recommended no action by the county. The board accepted that recommendation and recorded no action on those items.
No formal county endorsement or opposition was forwarded to the State Engineer on the contested applications at this meeting; commissioners left the matters for correction at the source and for reconsideration when accurate filings are available.
What happens next: Applicants must correct the filings and the county may revisit recommendations once complete and accurate legal descriptions are provided to the Nevada State Engineer.
