The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-07-18
WATERS UNDER FIRE
Newands Project Interest to Ask Court Ruling Relative
Rights to Flood Waters of Carson Rver-Believe that
Carson Valley Farmers are Infringing Upon Their :.
Rights But Such Is Certainly Not the Case

An overabundance of hysteria was
broadcasted from Fallon Wednesday
in an article published in the Reno
Gazette relative to storage of wa.
ter for irrigation on the upper Car.
son river, to the alleged detriment
of Newlands project settlers. The
article also states that court action
| is to be brought to determine the
rights of the settlers. The informa-
tion contained in the article is a
mass of misstatements and inaccur-
acies from beginning to end and is
not based on accurate information.
The article states that the Dang
berg company is building a storage
reservoir on the upper Carson river
with capacity of $4,000 acre feet
The reservoir now under construction
by the Dangberg company has a ca
pacity of but 1000 acre feet. It is
stated in the article that the Dang
berg company intends to build sec
ond reservoir with equal capacity
Ninety thousand acre feet of stored
water by the Dangberg company is
not only untrue but is .preposterous.
Elwood Meade of the reclamation
department was informed that there
were twenty-five reservoirs on the
upper Carson river, which is prob
ably true. However, the chain of
storage reservoirs owned by the AL
pine Land and Reservoir company
were in existence long before the
Newlands irrigation project was ever
thought of and before the federal
government filed on the flood waters
of the Carson river.
Interests at Fallon and the recla-
nation department know that the
reservoir now under construction by
the Dangberg company is to hold
1000 acre feet of water and not As
900 as reported from Fallon. The
reclamation department also knows
that the farmers or private individ-
uals of Carson Valley have nc
thought of taking any flood water
that have heretofore been appropri-
ated by the federal government for
the Newlands project. In normal
years there is enough flood waters
in the Carson river to fill several
Lahontan reservoirs. This year, which
goes into history as being the short.
est of water since farming began in
Carson Valley, the Lahontan dam
was filled. The water was not al.
lowed to run over the spillway be.
cause of repairs that were under
way during the runoff.
The Carson Valley Irrigation dis
trict has planned to store some 40,
900 acre feet of water at some fu
ture time, and when a feasible ant
acceptable plan for financing tn,
scheme is arrived at.
The Carson Valley Irrigation dis
trict, together with individual farm
ers who have small storage project.
at the headwaters of the Carson riv
er, will in the belief of the Record
Courier, welcome a court ruling ad
Indicating the relative rights to the
flood waters of the Carson river
At no time have they disputed the
rights of the Newlands project tc
| its full rights of flood waters of the
Carson river. They have, however
advanced the theory that they were
entitled to the flood waters of this
river, not used for storage purposes
at the Lahontan dam, but that rur
to waste in the Carson Sink. Ir
normal years the flood waters OF
the Carson river far surpass the
combined needs of agricultural re.
quirements of both Churchill and
Douglas counties, and the statements
advanced in the following article ap.
pearing in the Reno Gazette are
without fact or foundation
Court action should begin at once
to protect the Newlands project
against any unlawful storage of wa.