Snake River Basin Adjudication 1986 - Admin. Basin 72

The Snake River Basin Adjudication is a massive administrative and legal process designed to sort out more than 170,00 individual claims for water rights for water from the Snake River and its many tributaries. It is scheduled to be completed in the year 2005. The adjudication effort focuses on one basin at a time. Each claimant of an irrigation right receives a color aerial photograph complete with an outline of the department's recommendation for the place of use. The mailing includes a request for notificaion of any changes desired by the claimiant, and an invitation to an explanatory public meeting. These color IR aerial photographs are used in this process.