[BC] Station for Sale

[Mike McCarthy]

Agreed...just look at the battle brewing between Las Vegas and the ranchers 
to the north.  LV's water district is buying water rights and/or land as 
fast as they can in order to secure the aquifer supplying greater 
LV.  They've reached their limit of drawing from Lake Meade as I 
understand.  Further, the lake is nearly 100 ft. below normal and 150 ft. 
below food stage...which it did 15 or so years ago.

Hoover can't be shut down as there is the water sharing treaty from the 
1930's which prevents that from occurring.  The treaty involves a number of 
states from Wyoming to California.

Local ranchers north of LV are seeing their wells drop precipitously and 
have filed suit after suit against the practice of "calculating the 
available quantity of the water" under the land as a means to determine 
what can be pumped from an acre.

What the LV water district ultimately accomplishes by buying water rights 
is shutting out any development in those areas and depressing the land 
value of everything around those properties.  The only winners here are 
water district, as it can then go in by eminent domain and pay a reduced 
amount for the land they're seeking, and the water hogging super hotels and 
businesses which simply pay a premium for the continued flow of 
water.  Never mind that most homes in LV have a back-yard pool

I feel really sorry for the 20 million or so people living along and 
relying on the Colorado as that area is on a slippery slope of self 
destruction due to the lack of water, electrical capacity, and other 
thinning natural resources.  I see a day in the future where Colorado will 
dam the river at it's border if the drought in the high lands doesn't ease. 
That would leave a LOT of people in a lurch for certain....

MM

At 10:02 AM 10/7/2007 -0500, Gary Glaenzer wrote

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Fybush" <scott at fybush.com>
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>
> >  (I seem to recall one of
> > the locals telling me there were issues with water rights down south
> > that affected development potential there as well.)
> >
>
>
>if there are problems with Water Rights, there are Huge Freaking Problems
>
>
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