Collier v. Arizona Department of Water Resources

OPINION

KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Superior Court of Yavapai County affirming a decision of the Arizona Department of Water Resources denying a permit to appropriate public water. We affirm.

The appellants, Watts E. Collier and Lucille Collier, seek to appropriate water flowing from a spring located on their property. The spring, which they named Miracle Spring, first surfaced in 1979 in what was once the bed of Kirkland Creek. At some time in the past, the course of Kirkland Creek was changed so that the waters of the creek now bypass a section of its original…