Farmers Bearing Costs Of Rampant Exempt Well Proliferation
Farmers, ranchers and other senior water rights holders have been expressing strong concern regarding the exempt well statute. For the last 30 years, the law allowed for wells to be dug without a permit, review of the e_ect or neighbor’s knowledge, depleting groundwater and stream flows, leaving agriculture and other senior water right holders to make up the di_erence.
The concerns are tangible
