Show Water users asked to observe basis of assessment on two-river distribution system Members of the Associated Water Users of the Duchesne and Strawberry Rivers are asked that consideration be given for the basis of on this distribution system to be the same as ally used throughout the WAYNE D. state has suggested that assessments to the irrigation water users be apportioned on the average amount of water diverted per year on the previous five instead of that diverted the prior Inasmuch as this year is just the fourth year for this distribution the assessment could be on the basis of the past three-year average delivery and next year on the four-year and from then a five-year average the engineer pointed out AT THE annual meeting of this association at Criddle stated there were 22 different river distribution systems in the and Frank auditor for the state engineer's has a separate water account for each and collects and keeps an a-count for each separate water in each Purpose of this meeting at Duchesne was pinpointed to discuss problems of the past year in to distribution on this make report expenditures of sent the budget for the coming and appoint a water CRIDDLE said it is impossible to satisfactorily regulate and supervise diversion of water without measuring and control The expense of a lawsuit in one legal action will cost more than several measuring he emphasized The engineer told the irrigation water association members that he hopes measuring devices and control structures will be constructed where they are that the state did not want to be but in his office they feel that it is a necessity to have control and measuring devices at all B. O. water of the fact that 1959 was a difficult and a dry year in all but two of the canals for which continuous recorder records are had for the water the 1959 diversion exceeded the diversion made in In 21 thousand acre-feet were diverted through the Duchesne Tunnel from the Duchesne River to the Provo River and there were 35 thousand acre-feet diverted in 1959 1959 was the only year since it was constructed that diversion of Duchesne River water through the tunnel was stopped for a period because of a short water supply on the Duchesne 1958 21 thousand |