State Ex Rel. Intake Water Co. v. Board of Natural Resources & Conservation

Relator Intake Water Company filed a petition for a writ of mandate to compel the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation and the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to assign a priority date of January 14, 1975, to the water rights application of defendant Utah International, Inc. The District Court dismissed Intake’s petition. We affirm.

On November 20, 1973, Utah filed its application in Wyoming, on Wyoming forms to appropriate 106,730 acre feet from the Powder River, one of the rivers subject to the Yellowstone River Compact, section 85-20-101 et. seq., MCA. The water was…