Two San Juan River water user groups have filed a motion in the 11th Judicial District Court questioning a recent determination by the Bureau of Reclamation that enough water exists in the Upper Basin of the Colorado River to support the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. Albuquerque attorney Victor Marshall, representing the San Juan Agricultural Water Users Association and the Hammond Conservancy District, filed a motion Oct. 1 for limited discovery concerning BOR’s 2007 hydrologic determination, saying it appears to be erroneous and the errors need to be identified and corrected before the pipeline settlement is implemented.

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