Matter of Application for Water Rights of Preisser

This is an appeal from a water court decree, which awarded to 14 water wells not to exceed 8100 acre feet annually for irrigation of not to exceed 2025 acres of land. Additionally, the court awarded to the same wells a conditional decree in aggregate not to exceed 8100 acre feet per year for irrigation, municipal, commercial, industrial, recreational and other beneficial purposes, including out-of-basin transportation of the water embraced within the conditional decree. We affirm.

The wells are in Lincoln County and they lie across the drainages of Little Horse Creek and the Steel Fork of…