DETERMINATION OF RIGHTS TO USE OF WATER

No. 20060234.

182 P.3d 362 (2008)

2008 UT 25

In the Matter of the GENERAL DETERMINATION OF RIGHTS TO the USE OF WATER, Both Surface and Underground, Within the Drainage Area of the Price River and of the Drainage Area of the Green River From the Confluence of the Price and Green Rivers to the Confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers Excluding the Drainage Area of the San Rafael River in Utah. Penta Creeks, LLC, and Magnificent Seven, LLC, Appellants, v. Jerry D. Olds, Utah State Engineer, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Utah.

March 21, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise A. Dragoo, Scott C. Rosevear, Salt Lake City, for appellants.

Mark L. Shurtleff, Att'y Gen., Norman K. Johnson, L. Ward Wagstaff, Mark H. Stratford, Asst. Att'ys Gen., Salt Lake City, for appellee.


NEHRING, Justice:

¶ 1 One measure of the importance of water to the people of Utah is the sizeable array of moving parts found within the legal machinery of our statutes for processing claims to water and for fairly allocating the water sought by claimants. In this appeal, we examine the operation of two of those statutory parts on the claims of two limited liability companies, Penta Creeks, LLC, and Magnificent Seven, LLC.1

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