Imperial Irrigation District Repeals Equitable Distribution Plan Pending Judicial Review
Originally published in Journal of Water, Spring 2018
On February 6, 2018, the Board of Directors repealed Imperial Irrigation District’s (IID) Equitable Distribution Plan following a Superior Court decision in 2017 finding that IID lacked legal authority in adopting the plan in 2013. Key provisions of the plan involved apportioning Colorado River water available under IID’s Priority 3 Right to 3.1 million…