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Greetings!
Welcome to this issue of Water and the Law.  We hope you will find this newsletter to be helpful and informative.  As always, we welcome your feedback.  If you have questions or comments, please reply to this e-mail or call us at 801-413-1600.
  
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Announcements from Smith Hartvigsen
  
Smith Hartvigsen is pleased to announce that Jeffry R. Gittins will become a partner effective January 1, 2013. We are also pleased to announce the addition of two associates to the firm: Megan Garrett and Graham Gilbert. 
  
Jeff Gittins practices primarily in the areas of water law and land use. Jeff joined Smith Hartvigsen as an associate in 2008 following a one-year clerkship with the Honorable Justice Jill N. Parrish of the Utah Supreme Court.  Jeff maintains a leading Utah water rights law blog found at utahwaterrights.blogspot.com.
  

Megan Garrett joined Smith Hartvigsen in October, 2012 as an associate. Prior to joining Smith Hartvigsen, Megan was an attorney for several years at Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP. Megan's experience includes a wide range of commercial litigation matters, including aviation litigation, products liability defense, covenants not to compete, manufacturer and supplier disputes, construction litigation, employment defense, and arbitration. Megan assisted with the preparation of two amicus curiae briefs on behalf of Alliance Defense Fund in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, Supreme Court of the United States, Case No. 08-205. 

Megan has also published an article titled, "A New Era in Public Land Policy? The Shift Toward Reacquisition of Land and Natural Resources," with James R. Rasband, 53 Rocky Mtn. Min. L. Inst. 11-1 (2007).

  
Graham Gilbert practices in the areas of appellate law, wetlands regulation, environmental permitting, water quality, water law and commercial litigation. He is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College (B.A. degree, summa cum laude) and of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (J.D. degree, Order of the Coif).  Prior to law school, Mr. Gilbert worked as a consulting hydrologist for municipal, resort, agricultural, and energy clients in Colorado.  Before joining Smith|Hartvigsen, Mr. Gilbert served as a clerk to the Honorable Justice Jill N. Parrish of the Utah Supreme Court.  He is a member of the Utah State Bar (Salt Lake County Bar) and the American Bar Association (Environmental and Natural Resources Section) and is admitted to practice in Utah.   

 

Water Shares and Water Rights for Sale

 

As a service to our clients and others, we are assisting with the sale and lease of certain water shares and water rights. The following is a list of the shares and water rights available. If you would like to know asking price or any further information, please contact J. Craig Smith or David B. Hartvigsen.

 

Shares for Sale

 

Sanpete County

=Cedar Creek Tunnel Irrigation Co.       

183 shares (30% of the total shares of the company)(Point of Diversion in San Rafael River basin with Place of Use in Sanpete County. Trans-basin diversion)

 

Salt Lake County

=South Jordan Canal Co.                       

10 shares, 2 shares 

=Beckstead Irrigation Co.

15 shares, 12 shares

 

Summit County

=Summit Water Distribution Co.

       21 Class A shares

 

Utah / Salt Lake Counties

=Utah & Salt Lake Canal Co.                

108 shares, 12 shares, 4 shares, 2 shares 

=Utah Lake Distribution Co.                  

56 shares, 86 shares

=Welby Jacob Water Users Co.            

10 shares

 

Water Rights for Sale

 

Utah County

=51-7221  

18 acre-feet used for irrigation (underground water in Indianola/Birdseye area).  Additional water is also available.

 

Carbon County

=91-94  

0.15 cfs / 72.4 acre-feet used for mining (Gordon Creek water)

=91-330  

0.557 cfs / 252.35 acre-feet used for mining (Gordon Creek water)

=91-353  

0.015 cfs / 3.62 acre-feet used for mining (Gordon Creek water)

 

Grand County

=92-668

595.8 acre-feet used for irrigation (Green River water)

 

Sellers will sell all or any portion (1 share, 1 acre foot) of the water shares and water rights.

 

Water Rights for Lease

 

Daggett County

=41-3470

8,000 to 11,832 acre-feet approved for municipal use on the Green River.
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