Strawberry Water Users Ass'n v. United States

LUCERO, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the interaction of water and power rights under state and federal law. Although the federal law and contracts at issue stretch back over one hundred years, the dispute before us looks to the future: The Strawberry Water Users Association (“SWUA”) seeks a declaration that it has well-defined rights to develop power in the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah Project (“CUP”). In a well-considered ruling, the district court declined to grant such a declaration, other than to declare that SWUA, the United States, and the Central Utah Water Conservancy…