Water Debate Ends
Paper: White Pine County To Be Compensated
POSTED: 7:53 pm PDT August 29,
2008
UPDATED: 8:53 pm PDT August 29,
2008
LAS VEGAS -- The water debate may be over.The Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting White Pine County leaders have signed off on an agreement that will compensate the county for operations there.The Southern Nevada Water Authority will pay the county $156,000 this year and then $45,000 a year after that.
The SNWA eventually plans to pump at least 13 billion gallons of groundwater a year from White Pine to the Vegas Valley.
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