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Show 30 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT J. D. Hurd 46. Judge C. W. Morse, famous Utah jurist, whose name is perpetuated in the " Morse Decree" arising from lawsuits to adjudicate water rights. After his retirement from the bench Judge Morse served as Consulting Counsel for the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City from 1936 until his death in 1938. 47. One of the huge pumps which lift the waters of Utah Lake into the Salt Lake Valley irrigation canal systems. s. L. C. Eng. Dept. Among themselves it established no priorities; it decreed equality. " They shall have an equal right to the use of all such water to the extent of the capacity of their several canals, and, while there is sufficient water for that purpose, they may each take the full quantity of water their respective canals will carry, and when the water is insufficient to fill all the canals to their maximum capacity, then the City and Canal and Irrigation Companies shall be entitled to an equal division thereof." The " Morse Decree" defined the right of the city to 150 second feet of water for an irrigation season of 180 days, or a total of 54,000 acre feet. The " Booth Decree" about ten years later held its right limited to 36,000 acre feet, the amount its witnesses had stated to be the utmost of its requirements. " The court thus gave to the city all the water the witnesses said it required regardless of whether it had already applied that quantity to a beneficial use or not." The then City Engineer, in fixing ~"•">"* > • ::::;:': « *. « :# m |
