We talked briefly about the cost of buying or leasing water rights at the meeting tonight. I did a quick google and found prices from $800 up. Here is a story by the Express news saying buying acre feet of water was $2200 in 2005 and is now over $5000 an acre foot in 2008!!
It was said at the meeting that we need 20 acre feet of water a year to keep the lake full!!!
How can we afford this??
http://www.eckardnaturalresourcegroup.com/documents/articles/Buy_Water_Rights.pdf