Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Polansky

Leben, J.:

When Wheatland Electric Cooperative asked the Division of Water Resources to change characteristics of the company’s water rights, the Division approved the changes but limited the amount of water that Wheatland could use under the rights. The district court that reviewed the Division’s decision remanded the case to the Division to reconsider the rights’ consumptive-use hmitation, and the Division then initiated abandonment proceedings and terminated the unused portions of those rights. The district court reviewed the Division’s actions again, this time finding that the division…