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Show levels are to be regarded as an infringement of prior existing rights. This is the very point on which the present law is unrealistic for in the very nature of ground water occurrence the fullest development demands that pressures and static levels be reduced, for, as long as they remain high, water is forced to the surface and lost by evaporation and transpiration by water- loving vegetation. 10. Ground water reservoirs are like surface reservoirs and should be regulated and operated in an identical manner. If, in order to maintain pressure or a particular static level, the reservoir must be kept full to the brim all of the time, then it loses its storage and stream regulating function and the only water that would be available would be the excess above the reservoir' s capacity or that amount of water passing over the spillway. Reservoirs, both surface and underground, should be operated so as to control spring floods. If they are kept full, they cannot absorb flood waters thus losing one of their most important functions and that is to regulate the water so that it will be available when most needed. The committee authorized the chairman and secretary to edit and condense the individual member " reports" into a " final form" to be submitted at an early date to Mr. Lloyd. Under date of August 16, 1956, this " final report" was distributed by mail to all members of the Utah Legislative Council Water Committees. Late in August, Dr. Harold E. Thomas, chairman of the Underground Water Committee, was transferred permanently out of the state and Professor Marsell was asked to take over his duties as " acting chairman" for the remainder of the committee's period of activity. On September 13, 1956, at a meeting of the executive committee of the Legislative Council, Professor Marsell, as acting chairman, presented the final report of his committee and moved its acceptance, which was done by a unanimous vote. - 9- |
