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Show ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT < East Jordan and was having difficulty in fulfilling its Exchange Agreements which now involve, all in all, an annual delivery of approximatey 70,000 acre feet. The Utah Lake rights are now in litigation and a complete history of them is therefore inadvisable. The facts stated above, however, are of record and available to whomever is interested and the problems they suggest, both legal and practical, are fairly obvious. We nevertheless add a paraphrase of a summary of that history and its possible effects made in 1932 by the City Attorney at the request of Commissioner Keyser: # " In 1900 we had a right to 54,000 acre feet of water from Utah Lake which long since ought to have become impregnably established. We had absolute equality as against the other primary users. We had the unquestioned right to use the lake as a reservoir and conserve our supply in accordance with our probable necessities and good business practice. We had a right unquestioned, superior to that of any of those whose demands now jeopardize our interests and put us to the hazard of dangerous litigation. In 1910 it was asserted that our 54,000 acre feet was cut to 36,000. It is now claimed that it is still further reduced, and now also our claim of equality with the other users is being ignored. The lake has to some extent been used as a reservoir, but depletion has been permitted, largely by subsequent rights, and is again threatened. Secondary users during periods of shortages have asserted and are now asserting a right which, in result at 50. Another view of the electrically- powered Utah Lake pumping sysh S. L. C. Eng. Dept. ' sfep' o |