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Legal Reviews

• 1989 - Utah Water Rights Transfer Law. Davis.
• 1988 - Economic Impacts of Water Law State Law and Water Market Development in the Southwest. Colby

Kane County transfer to Emery County

• 91-5230 (previously 89-74; 89-1285; 89-1513) 
• Annual acre-feet: 29,600 (original amount as of 2010) 
• Annual acre-feet: 13,670 (current modiified amount)
• Priority date: 1/15/1964
• Point of diversion: Emery County
• Purpose: Nuclear fuel power plant
• Protested? Yes.
• Active withdrawal? No

San Juan County to Emery County and Grand County

• 91-5233 (renumbered from 09-462)
• Annual acre-feet: 24,000
• Priority date: 04/21/2000
• Original point of diversion: Emery County in 2010
• Purpose: Nuclear fuel power plant
• Repurposed in 2025 for residential development at City of Green River and Cisco in Grand County
• Repurposed point of diversion: Grand County (Colorado River near historic Cisco Pump Station)
• Repurposed for endangered fish at mouth of San Rafael River (2,000 acre feet annual; a fixed time application of ten years)
• Protested? Yes.
• Active withdrawal? No 

Wayne County

• 95-434
• Annual acre-feet: 49,370
• Priority 11/29/1960
• Point of Diversion: Grand County
• Purposes: agriculture and lithium extraction
• Protested? Yes
• Active withdrawal? Yes (pivots in Grand County)

Duchesne County

• 41-3716
• Annual Acre feet: 20,000
• Priority date: 08/07/1958
• Point of diversion: Grand County
• Purpose: Potash extraction
• Protested? Yes.
• Active withdrawal? No

Daggett County

• 41-3687
• Annual acre feet: 8,000
• Priority date: 12/04/2006
• Point of diversion: Green River Pump Station in Grand County (Elgin)
• Purpose: Potash extraction
• Protested? Yes.
• Active withdrawal? No 

Grand County

• Annual acre-feet: 4,000
• Reference: Protest letter to Daggett County

Emery County

NEWS

• September 22, 2024 - State engineer doubles down on approval of controversial Utah lithium drilling project. By Anastasia Hufham of The Salt Lake Tribune.
• November 5, 2025 - State weighs water right change as developer eyes rebirth of Cisco ghost town. By Andrew Christensen For Moab Times-Independent.
• Local Groups Protest Water Application for Proposed Potash Mine
• BLM Okays Potash Exploratory Drilling Project Near Labyrinth Canyon
• BLM Gives Green Light to Hatch Point Potash Exploration