Water Resources

The Yomba Shoshone Tribe of Nevada engaged R.O. Anderson to provide a comprehensive water rights reference document pertinent and available to tribe members. To complete this assignment, significant correspondence reports and recorded documents, as provided by representatives of the Yomba Tribe, were identified and critically evaluated.  A thorough search was also conducted to identify active and inactive water rights on file with Nevada Division of Water Resources and in the ownership of Yomba Tribe or its predecessors in-interest.  For each water right, all available documents and supporting maps were retrieved and reviewed.  In addition, R.O. Anderson provided  recommendations for immediate and long-term action steps.
Based upon these recommendations, R.O. Anderson was further retained to prepare separate Proofs of Appropriation and a supporting map for each of the Tribe’s three main ranches, prepare and file Reports of Conveyance documenting the land ownership transfers from private parties having previously owned each of the three ranches to the Yomba Shoshone Tribe, prepare the requisite Abstract of Title and obtaining recorded copies of each of the deeds affecting the transfer of properties between the parties, and to prepare Applications to Appropriate Groundwater for each of the existing domestic wells that serve the community water system for area around the tribal headquarters.