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- Title
Showdown at Geddes Gulch: How Prior Appropriation Ambushed Weber County.
- Authors
HOLLEY, VAL
- Abstract
This article discusses rights to water upstream and downstream of the Ogden and other rivers in Utah during the nineteenth century. Early settlers along the Ogden River settled in the bottom lands and diverted water from the river for farming irrigation. As the years passed, settlements further up the river began to use so much water that those in the bottom lands began to run short of water. Many lawsuits were brought to resolve water rights. William Geddes brought the first lawsuit and it was decided that water districts would be created in accordance with settlement dates.
- Subjects
OGDEN River (Utah); UTAH; WATER rights; WATER laws; RIPARIAN rights; GEDDES, William
- Publication
Utah Historical Quarterly, 2009, Vol 77, Issue 4, p333
- ISSN
0042-143X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/45063170