Stern v. Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake & Sandy

Justice LEE,

opinion of the Court:

{ 1 The Point of the Mountain Aqueduct is a sixty-inch diameter pipeline that runs along the historic Draper Canal and transports culinary water to Salt Lake City and other cities in the Salt Lake Valley. Plaintiffs in this case are homeowners who asserted claims challenging Metropolitan Water District's construction of the aqueduct as exceeding the scope of its real property rights along the canal route. The district court granted summary judgment for the Water District. We affirm that decision in most respects, but reverse and remand for further proceedings…