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Show 29 a sum of money equivalent to the average of the amount of taxes annually levied and assessed against the land and improvements thereon during the ten years preceding the acquisition of such land. Said payments shall be in full reimbursement for the loss of taxes in such political subdivision of the State. E. Rights to the use of water acquired under this Article shall in all respects be subject to this Compact. article vin Stored water, or water from another watershed may be turned into the channel of the Bear River in one State and a like quantity, with allowance for loss by evaporation, transpiration, and seepage, may be taken out of the Bear River in another State either above or below the point where the water is turned into the channel, but in making such exchange the replacement water shall not be inferior in quality for the purpose used or diminished in quantity. Exchanges shall not be permitted if the effect thereof is to impair vested rights or to cause damage for which no compensation is paid. ARTICLE IX A. The following rights to the use of Bear River water carried in interstate canals are recognized and confirmed: Hilliard East Fork....____..........................1914........... Chapman________._____________.................8-13-86_______ 8-13-86...____ 4-12-12_______ 5-3-12________ 5-21-12_______ 2-6-13......... 8-28-05........ Francis Lee............__________......_________1879____...... 1879........... 28.00 2,644 Wyoming. 16.46 1,155 Wyoming. 98.46 6,892 Utah. . 57 40 Wyoming. 4.07 285 Utah. 10.17 712 Utah. . 79 55 Wyoming, i 134.00.....____ 2.20 154 Wyoming. 7.41 519 Utah. Lands irrigated Name of canal Date of priority Primary right--------------------------------------- second-feet Acres State i Under the right as herein confirmed not to exceed 134 second-feet may be carried across the Wyoming-Utah State line in the Chapman Canal at any time for filling the Neponset Reservoir, for irrigation of land in Utah and for other purposes. The storage right in Neponset Reservoir is for 6,900 acre-feet which is a component part of the irrigation right for the Utah lands listed above. All other rights to the use of water carried in interstate canals and ditches, as adjudicated in the State in which the point of diversion i s located, are recognized and confirmed. B. All interstate rights shall be administered by the State in which the point of diversion is located and during times of water emergency, such rights shall be filled from the allocations specified in Article IV hereof for the Section in which the point of diversion is located, with the exception that the diversion of water into the Hilliard East Fork Canal, Lannon Canal, Lone Mountain Ditch, and Hilliard West Side Canal shall be under the administration of Wyoming. During times of water emergency these canals and the Lone Mountain Ditch shall be supplied from the allocation specified in Article IV for the Upper Wyoming Section Diversions. |