IN RE RIGHTS TO USE WATER IN GILA RIVER

Nos. WC-90-0001-IR, WC-90-0001-IR to WC-90-0007-IR and WC-79-0001 to WC-79-0004.

175 Ariz. 382 (1993)

857 P.2d 1236

In re the GENERAL ADJUDICATION OF ALL RIGHTS TO USE WATER IN the GILA RIVER SYSTEM AND SOURCE.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

July 27, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennings, Strouss & Salmon by M. Bryon Lewis, John B. Weldon, Jr., Lisa M. McKnight and Stephen E. Crofton, Phoenix, for Salt River Project, Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n.

John D. Leshy and Dale E. Pontius, Washington, DC, for the Nature Conservancy.

O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingsworth & Beshears by Ralph E. Hunsaker, Phoenix, for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; and Peabody Coal Co., amicus curiae.

John S. Schaper, Phoenix, for Buckeye Irr. Co. and Buckeye Water Conservation & Drainage Dist.

Alicia F. Tocco, Phoenix, for Vanosdell Farms.

Roderick G. McDougall, Phoenix City Atty. by M. James Callahan and Katherine Ott Verburg, Phoenix, for City of Phoenix.

Snell & Wilmer by Robert B. Hoffman and Carlos D. Ronstadt, Phoenix, for Arizona Public Service Co., Magma Copper Co., and Farmers Inv. Co.

Shiela B. Schmidt, Phoenix, for Arizona Public Service Co.

Fennemore Craig, P.C. by James W. Johnson and Lauren J. Caster, Phoenix, for Cyprus Christmas Min. Co., Cyprus Miami Min. Co., Cyprus Pima Min. Co., Cyprus Sierrita Min. Co., and Cyprus Twin Buttes Min. Co.

Ellis, Baker & Porter, P.C. by William D. Baker, Teresa H. Foster and Paul R. Orme, Phoenix, for Cent. Arizona Irr. & Drainage Dist., Maricopa-Stanfield Irr. & Drainage Dist., New Magma Irrigation & Drainage Dist.

Brown & Brown by David Albert Brown, Saint Johns, for Little Colorado Water Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Frederick S. Dean, Tucson City Atty. by Frederick S. Dean and Loretta Humphrey, Tucson, for City of Tucson.

Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite, P.A. by George Read Carlock, Michael J. Brophy, Sheryl A. Taylor and Barry R. Sanders, Phoenix, for Roosevelt Water Conservation Dist.

Quarles & Brady & Fannin by William H. Anger and Daniel L. Muchow, Phoenix, for Cities of Chandler, Glendale, Mesa and Scottsdale.

Apker, Apker, Haggard & Kurtz by Burton M. Apker, Jerry L. Haggard and Gerrie Apker Kurtz, Phoenix, for Asarco Inc. and Phelps Dodge Corp.

Steptoe & Johnson by Bruce Babbitt, Monica L. Goebel, Steven M. Hoffman and David J. Bodney, Phoenix, for Verde Valley Claimants.

United States Dept. of Justice by Gary B. Randall, Steven E. Carroll, Robert L. Klarquist, F. Patrick Barry, Dirk D. Snel and William H. Swan, Washington, DC, for the U.S.

Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. by Edwin C. Bull and Daryl D. Manhart, Phoenix, for Roosevelt Irr. Dist.

Grant Woods, Atty. Gen. by Joseph E. Clifford, III, Carol L. Sacks and Cynthia M. Chandley, Phoenix, for State of Ariz.

Cox and Cox by Alfred S. Cox, Z. Simpson Cox, and Alan J. Cox, Phoenix and Rodney B. Lewis, Sacaton, for Gila River Indian Community and Silas Kisto.

Lewis and Roca by Tom Galbraith and Paul D. Ellsworth, Phoenix, for Paloma Inv. Ltd. Partnership.

David R. Merkel, Tempe City Atty. by Karen S. Gaylord, Tempe, for City of Tempe.

Perry, Pierson & Kolsrud by Mark S. Sifferman, Phoenix, for Tenneco West, Inc. and Tenneco Arizona Properties Corp.

Greene, Meyer & McElroy by Scott McElroy, Boulder, CO, for the Navajo Nation.

Kimball & Curry, P.C. by Dalva L. Moellenberg and D. Lee Decker, Phoenix, for Apache Nitrogen Products, Inc. and Arizona Rock Products Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Douglas C. Nelson, Phoenix, for Gila Bend-Dendora Valley Water Users Ass'n.

Jennele Morris O'Hair, Casa Grande, for Cities of Benson and Sierra Vista, and Town of Mammoth.

Riney B. Salmon, II and Augustine Jimenez, III, Phoenix, for Maricopa County Mun. Water Conservation Dist. and San Carlos Irr. & Drainage Dist.

Sparks & Siler by Joe P. Sparks, Kevin T. Tehan, and John H. Ryley, Scottsdale, for San Carlos Apache Tribe of Arizona, Tonto Apache Tribe, Yavapai Apache Indian Community, and Camp Verde Reservation.

Meyer, Hendricks, Victor, Osborn & Maledon by Lee H. Storey and Jay I. Moyes, Phoenix, for Rio Rico Properties, Inc.

Martinez & Curtis, P.C. by William P. Sullivan and Michael A. Curtis, Phoenix, for Town of Wickenburg, Town of Gilbert, Cortaro-Marana Irr. Dist., Pima County, Ariz., Cortaro Water Users' Ass'n, Bella Vista Water Co., Inc., Bella Vista Ranches Ltd. Partnership, and Valencia Water Co., Inc.

Pamela L. Vining and Beus, Gilbert & Morrill by Lisa M. Martin, Phoenix, for represented claimants.

Sonosky, Chambers & Sachse by Harry R. Sachse and William R. Perry, Washington, DC, and Office of the Gen. Counsel by Michael P. O'Connell, Kykotsmovi, for the Hopi Tribe, amicus curiae.


OPINION

FELDMAN, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents the second of six issues accepted for interlocutory review on December 11, 1991. We decide today whether the trial court erred in adopting a test to determine whether the underground water known as subflow is appropriable under A.R.S. § 45-141. We have jurisdiction pursuant to A.R.S. § 45-252 and ARIZ. CONST. art. 6, § 5(3).

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