Department of Ecology v. Acquavella

In a direct appeal, the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District (YTID) challenges several aspects of the trial court’s ruling on YTID’s water right. The Department of Ecology and numerous other parties have cross-appealed.

This direct appeal arises from a general adjudication of water rights in the Yakima River Basin that began in *7501977. Other matters concerning the adjudication have been before this court two previous times. In the first appeal, this court allowed the general adjudication to proceed even though personal service of process had not been served on over 40,000 individual parties who…