In Re the Adjudication of the Existing Rights to the Use of All the Water, Both Surface & Underground Within the Clark Fork River Drainage Area Above the Blackfoot River

Clifford E. Graveley filed a statement of claim for one-half of an existing water right of 350 miners inches (8.75 cfs) from Three Mile Creek in Powell County. Olive McDonald, Jim C. Quigley, Clifford E. Graveley, William McIntosh, Dan M. Graveley, James E. Bignell, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and the Graveley Black Mountain Ranch (Respondents) objected to his claim. On March 17, 1994, following a hearing on respondents’ objections, the Water Master entered a report in which he found that Clifford Graveley’s water right had been abandoned by over fifty years of nonuse,…