Show f. f hi H. H t- t t tri ri JIGA w t r Wv ap a b a 7 J ww til t. t r il u J J d i F s r f N r Y i. i SITE IN DUTCH JOHN where the proposed Young Adult Conservation Corps camp will be located The site is on Sixth Avenue and if ap- ap The volatile subject of water rights is likely to become a principal point of debate on Gov Scott Matheson's proposed 25 million water bond proposal according to the Deseret News Sen Thorpe Waddingham Delta D-Delta one of the states state's leading authorities on water law said Wasatch Front lawmakers are apt to insist that because the state will be putting up the bond money that it have the authority to decide uses of the water Waddingham long a staunch defender defender de des fender of historical first time first time in-time first- first right in principle of allocating water said he hels heis is now ready to move part way in the direction of allowing the state to broker the water from the new dams The Delta attorney said the eight dams proposed in the bonding program are intended to place into consumptive use the remainder of the states state's share of Upper Colorado River water Some of this water has been filed on onby onby onby by the state and is being held in trust Waddingham said there is no question but that the state should retain control of thit water rather than assign proved would be the headquarters for a person force to work in Flaming Gorge Recreation Recreation tion Area Rights issue may stall water bond bon the rights to the sponsoring conservancy conservancy conservancy con con- district after the bonds have been retired TilE THE CONSERVANCY district or districts would supervise the mechanics of day today sale of the thew w water ter but the state would retain control However where there is a water right being held by an entity of a size sufficient to qualify for bonding he believes the water rights should be theirs following payment of the bonds Where the real controversy may arise he said is in connection with a third kind of water right This is where water has been filed on by a group which lacks the funds to develop the water within the specified time and therefore has assigned the water right to the state to be held in trust The senator said a project may arise which contains elements of two or more types of claims thus complicating the water rights issue However the proposed White River dam and hydroelectric plant the mainstay of the entire program contains no elements of the controversy mentioned In this case the filings were made by bythe bythe bythe the state he said TilE THE WHITE River dam is estimated to cost cast 20 million with the state supplying 10 million and the Ute Indian Indian Indian In In- dian Tribe the other 10 million However if negotiations with the tribe were to fail this dam alone would take almost all of the projected 25 million bonding money Gov Calvin L L. L Rampton made two attempts to have laws passed altering historic w water ter policy but failed His position was that the state should have some authority to set aside the in first-in- time right in policy in order to achieve the highest use of the states state's limited water supply Sen Waddingham said Rampton failed because he tried to go too far If he had agreed to apply the new policy to future filings instead of existing ones he probably would have got what he wanted said Waddingham |