Wherever natural streams are employed as a means of diversion of water from the place of confinement to the place of use, the commission shall adopt proper methods and means of determining the natural flow of such streams when the amount of such natural flow is insufficient to satisfy or fill the needs of appropriators prior in right.
N.D. Cent. Code § 61-02-36
Natural streams employed as a means of diversion of water - Adopting methods to determine natural flow
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