Interesting water rights case out of the court of appeals, division three involving relinquishment of water rights. In Washington, water rights that attach to a parcel of land can be lost (relinquished) through a period of nonuse. In the first sense, Pacific Land Partners, LLC v State of Washington, Department of Ecology, demonstrates the various levels of government involved in the process and distinction between voluntary non-use and abandonment. On a more practical sense, the outcome of...
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