and operating factors were given scores based on the following sections: storage-zone confinement, storage-zone transmissivity, storage zone gradient and direction, recharge water quality, native groundwater quality, overall physical, geochemical, and design interactions, and interfering uses and impacts....
right”. Adoption of the 1945 Groundwater Code provided statutes to regulate and appropriate public groundwater within the state, based on a priority system; however, priority is given to surface water right holders when their water right is considered hydraulically connected to groundwater sources ...
but especially those that are influenced by watershed development and pollution. Lakes that produce toxic blooms often provide citizens with vital recreational opportunities in addition to supplying drinking water. Closures of lakes due to toxic blooms have had economic impacts in lakes from all regions...