State v. Anderson

The purpose of this action was to adjudicate the water rights of the various riparian owners on, and appropriators of water from, Alpowa creek.

That creek is a small, non-navigable stream, about twenty-five miles long, rising in the Blue Mountains, in the southern part of Garfield county, flows in an easterly direction through Garfield and Asotin counties and discharges into the Snake river. The average pre*11cipitation in the vicinity of the creek is about eighteen inches per annum, six inches of which is during the irrigating season. The creek supplies sufficient water to irrigate all the lands…