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<br /> 94 <br />' <br />t 1 thing as a right to take water, per se. Instead, <br /> 2 when a water right is granted, it is a right to take <br /> 3 a specific amount of water at a particular time from <br /> 4 particular goints of diversion for a particular use. <br /> 5 Battle Mountain Resources has purchased <br />' 6 the existing water rights of the Columbian Ranch, <br /> 7 which lies just west of the highway across from the <br />' 8 mi <br />e site <br />Wh <br />t the <br />h <br />d <br />t <br />ht t <br />i <br /> . <br />y purc <br />n <br />a <br />ase <br />was no <br />a r <br />o <br />g <br />1 9 take water, per se, as I mentioned, but rather, they <br /> to stand in the shoes of the Columbian Ranch and they <br />1 11 have a right to irrigate the land through the wells <br /> 12 with particular points of diversion and particular <br />' 13 amounts of diversion that the Columbian Ranch has <br /> 14 used. <br />' 15 In order to use the water that the <br /> y <br /> 16 have the right to at that point for their mining <br /> 17 purposes, they have to qo through another <br /> 18 application process that includes several stages. <br /> 19 I will get to those in a minute. <br /> 20 In addition, with respect to Question 47, <br /> 21 which I will discuss a little bit more, it mentioned <br /> i <br /> 22 cate <br />that a second court case is pending to adjud <br /> 23 nontributary water. <br /> 24 From a chronological perspective, <br />' 25 Case 89-CW-5 -- and I mention it only to distinguish <br />AGREN, BLANDO & BILLINGS <br />