Show Protests planned 57 water filings on Strawberry and Duchesne Rivers cut from users' list Fifty-seven water filings on thc Duchesne Strawberry rivers have been cut off the list of and the remainder of the filings have been cut 50 reports El wood B. Car executive chairman of Duchesne and Strawberry This curtailment was handled through the state engineer's i EXECUTIVE directors of the several irrigation water companies in this area met June 25 at Carter's home discuss this calamitous These 15 men represented the upper Duchesne River area to the lower Rocky Point Ditch canal below Duchesne Leo water commissioner for these two attended the These company executives protested filings on new lands as having higher priority in the lower areas of the Carter said 27 of the filing affecting percent are on the Duchesne River and 25 are on the A lot of those lands affected had in use and irrigated since or according to Those early filings have been changed and brought up to date to conform to acres now in use since the first THE DUCHESNE Supplementary water Committee was organized in the early 1950 's to firm up and stabilize water supplies on the Duchesne and Strawberry At this belief was voiced that people who have been using water from these streams for 56 years should have prior rights to the new land development in the This committee subordinated rights and brought filings up to date under J. Bracken Lee and water George D. now Utah's This action was to give full filings on all farms being watered and acres of new land that had been used but had no AN OFFICIAL protest is to be written by association's Earl Van Tassell of and filed with the state This letter protesting the water closing is to be taken to the state engineer toy a three-man committee Charlie D. Ray Thomas and |