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Issues identified in the Northeast Basin<br />

1 of 2<br />

Category Issues Activities/Projects<br />

Related Lands - Noxious weeds<br />

- Streambank erosion<br />

- Private land rights<br />

Funding - Funding for implementation<br />

- Private, state, federal - Who?<br />

<strong>Water</strong> Development - Agriculture Crook Co. Reservoir Study<br />

- Recreation<br />

- Municipal<br />

<strong>Water</strong> Rights - <strong>Water</strong> quantity (adjudicated rights vs. normal streamflow)<br />

- Current use, adjudicated and historical<br />

- Private property water rights<br />

- State law water rights<br />

- Protecting existing water rights<br />

- Compact issues - Belle Fourche River<br />

- Keep "<strong>Wyoming</strong>" water in <strong>Wyoming</strong><br />

Underground <strong>Water</strong> - Industrial Gillette Groundwater<br />

- Urban Pine Haven, Canyon, Sunset, Moorcroft, Wright<br />

- Agricultural<br />

Regulatory - Clean <strong>Water</strong> Act, water quality, TMDLs<br />

- Wetlands<br />

- Endangered species<br />

- Groundwater permitting process<br />

- Forest management, or lack thereof, effecting water quality<br />

- Governmental taking of water and/or land<br />

- Corps of Engineers<br />

- EPA<br />

- BOR<br />

- BLM<br />

- Source point pollution problems<br />

- WY DEQ<br />

- Stream classification<br />

- Conflicting government goals with private owners caught in the middle

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