'Gunslinger' sought in water fight

by Sheila Gardner,
The Record-Courier
December 7, 2007

Minden is looking for a legal "gunslinger" to protect its vast water holdings and is ready to pay the six- to seven-figure fee town board members estimate it will cost to overturn the latest challenge from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.

"This is the big one, boys," town board member Ross Chichester said Wednesday after learning the Paiutes had filed an appeal to stop the Nevada water engineer's ruling that Douglas County's water transfers were within legal limits.

Just before Thanksgiving, the tribe appealed the state engineer's finding in Federal Court in Reno and in District Court in Churchill County.

The appeal continues to bring the Douglas County water transfer requests to a halt.

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