Bullock v. Hanks

CALLISTER, Justice.

Plaintiffs appeal from a decree of the District Court of Summit County affirming the decision of the State Engineer granting approval of an application to appropriate water.

Defendants filed an application to appropriate 1700 acre-feet of water from East Beaver Creek and Middle Beaver Creek, tributaries of Henry’s Fork River, for storage in an off-channel reservoir, which they proposed to construct in the Burnt Fork Creek drainage area and to release for irrigation use by them. The applicants proposed to convey the water from the two creeks by means of enlarging existing…