TITLE 42

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

CHAPTER 1

APPROPRIATION OF WATER — GENERAL PROVISIONS

42-115.  storage. To ensure that new or proposed projects to store more than one thousand (1,000) acre feet of surface water do not interfere with the storage of water in existing on-stream storage reservoirs operated for storage and flood control purposes, the director of the department of water resources shall subordinate permits and licenses for projects to store more than one thousand (1,000) acre feet of surface water issued after the effective date of this section to the capture and retention of water in existing on-stream storage reservoirs during and following flood control operations until the date of allocation.

History:

[42-115, added 2019, ch. 16, sec. 1, p. 18.]