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Fight it while you can
The developers always win these.
Another golf course in the desert
Gots to have lots of watter for da greens.
Not really
Water Resources has a history of saying "no" to plans like these regardless of who asks for it. Remember, they're the ones that fined Butch Otter not once but TWICE for violations.
Look at all the companies they say no too and then turn around and sue them. Wasn't it last year that one case went to the Idaho Supreme court which still ruled in favor of Water Resources?
Yeah
And the guy who fined Butch was fired when Butch became govenor. He was basically ran out of state to find work. Goes to show how the politics work around here.
Nope
The guy that fined him retired. The director was let go, but the guy that did the actual fines left on his own.
Where's the objective study?
The hydrologist is hired by the developer. Where's the study from an independent, objective party?
Not just Eagle
One of the biggest water rights in Idaho history? The entire Treasure Valley should be paying attention, not just residents of Eagle.
No kidding, not just Eagle...
...a developer in the adjacent Dry Creek valley has also applied for a municipal water right, which is also being protested by local well-dependent residents. How long do you think it will take the developer to sell to United Water, possibly for export? Wake up, Treasure Valley! This is a huge issue.
you've already lost
this fight. M3 is a huge development. The local politician can't say no to them and will bend over backwards and enjoy the rewards of selling their state off piece by piece.
In other words,
grab the water before it has a
chance to get to the Payette Basin.
Everyone in Emmett, New Plymouth and Payette
can move to M3 when they run out of water.
I know a couple brand new empty subdivisions with a pretty white
fence around a bunch of weeds..! Another one with most houses empty for sale lol...Why don't they build there and leave foothills for the deer? Kind of a fire haz anyway building on desert hills :(