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<div>Jerry,</div>
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<div>Here's the current water situation as I understand it. Bear with
me as it's a bit convoluted:</div>
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<div>Hawkins has entered into an agreement with the Town of Colton in
which Colton relinquishes its previous arrangement with McKiernan Bros
(an auto/truck/farm equip repair business north of Pullman on the
Palouse Highway) in which Colton would have purchased and transferred
McKiernan's water right to add capacity to their municipal system.
Hawkins agreed to find other water for Colton to replace the McKiernan
water. The agreement was to do this in 90 days. All this was reported
in the Whitman Gazette back in August.</div>
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<div>There are two issues here. The first is the "sourcing area"
for the water. The area around Colton is underlain by a basalt flow
that is not present in the Moscow/Pullman area (the Saddle Mountain
formation) and which currently supplies Colton its water. There are
other flows below the Saddle Mountain flow that are also present in
the Moscow/Pullman area. So, Hawkins idea is to find other Saddle
Mountain formation wells that they could acquire the rights to and
give them to Colton in exchange for the McKiernan Bros well which
could transfer to their proposed development site.</div>
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<div>That's the first hurdle for Hawkins: find the well for Colton to
replace McKiernan.</div>
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<div>However there is another consideration when transferring water
rights that Hawkins does not seem to have taken into account. As in
Idaho, Washington has a "use it or lose it" policy regarding
water rights. In the case of the McKiernan well, it was originally
drilled by an ag-chem company who likely did use the full 22 acre
foot/yr water right they were granted. But it's been a long time since
that was the case. WA regs look back five years when calculating how
much water has been put to beneficial use for purposes of deciding how
much is transferrable. I don't know how much a repair shop uses but
I'll wager its considerably less than 22 acre foot/yr (1 acre foot
=<font color="#000000"> 325,851 gallons</font>).</div>
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<div>So, even if Hawkins can find replacement rights for Colton, they
will only be able to transfer (and I'm guessing here) somewhere
between 1-3 acre foot to their proposed development.</div>
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<div>In other words, water is still a huge issue for them.</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<div>At 10:50 PM -0700 10/12/06, Jerry Weitz wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dan, a few month ago we contacted the
Hawkins project manager for information over citing a dental office in
the development. We asked a number of questions and received
answers. They are very serious and beleive they can handle the
water issue. Walmart in not in the running, Lowes is.
Two other majors are committed and wish not to be known publicly at
this time. Do you believe that the development can be
stopped? Jerry At 12:55 PM 10/11/06, Dan Carscallen
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="-1"
color="#800000">Anyone else hear that sucking sound from the west?<br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="-1" color="#800000">who's next?<br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="-1" color="#800000">DC</font><br>
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From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] On Behalf Of Bill London<br>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:44 AM<br>
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To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>
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Subject: [Vision2020] Moscow-Pullman Highway going commercial<br>
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<font face="Arial" size="-1">According to a legal notice regarding
stormwater pollution prevention in the Daily News (page 9B, Tuesday,
Oct. 10), the James Hill Toyota dealership is moving from Moscow to
the Washington side of the line.<br>
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The dealership has purchased 13 acres on the Moscow-Pullman Highway,
on the south side of the highway, between the highway and the creek,
about a mile from Moscow.<br>
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The present plan is to develop 6 acres as the Toyota dealership.<br>
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There goes the neighborhood.....<br>
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BL</font><br>
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