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Water Right Included Reasonable Losses
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1986.tb05685.x
Subject(s) - supreme court , frontier , ditch , allowance (engineering) , law , legislature , order (exchange) , political science , engineering , business , operations management , finance , ecology , biology
The Frontier Ditch Company in Kansas was issued an order to cease diversion in excess of its vested right. Frontier argued that under Kansas law it was allowed its vested right plus an additional amount to make up for waste, seepage, and evaporation. The Supreme Court of Kansas ruled that the vested right of a company was determined from what the company was actually diverting prior to 1945, and that an additional allowance for waste, seepage, and evaporation was not within the legislative intent of the law.