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Thursday, February 17, 2005

IN THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS

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Summit Water Distribution Company, a Utah nonprofit corporation; Leon H. Saunders, an individual; Stuart A. Knowles, an individual; Trilogy Limited, L.P., a Georgia limited partnership; and Lynn Nelson, an individual,
Plaintiffs and Appellants,
v.
Mountain Regional Water Special Service District, a body politic of the State of Utah; Douglas W. Evans, Assistant General Manager of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District; James W. Carbine, General Manager of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District; David E. Hansen, Summit County District Engineer; Steve Jenkins, Director of the Summit County Health Department; the Governing Board of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District, Shauna L. Kerr, Robert Richer, and Kenneth E. Woolstenhulme, in their official capacities; and John Does 1-10,
Defendants and Appellees.

OPINION(For Official Publication)

Case No. 20040091-CA

F I L E D(February 17, 2005)
2005 UT App 66


¶1 Summit Water Distribution Company; Leon H. Sanders; Stuart A. Knowles; Trilogy Limited, L.P.; and Lynn Nelson (collectively, Summit Water) appeal the trial court's determinations that Summit County was authorized by the County Land Use Development and Management Act (CLUDMA), see Utah Code Ann. §§ 17-27-101 to -1003 (2001 & Supp. 2004), to adopt Ordinance No. 436 and, therefore, that Summit Water's complaint was untimely under the appeals provision of CLUDMA, see Utah Code Ann. § 17-27-1001 (Supp. 2004).

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Check out the Water Resources IMPACT Journal

The American Water Resources Association journal Water Resources IMPACT provides articles addressing many thematic water resource management issues.

The archived editions (pre-2004) are available online at no charge - go to http://www.awra.org/impact/ . More recent issues are only available to members of the society. The archived articles are worth looking through.

In particular, the July 2002 issue provides a great overview of the policies, practices, and science of water quality assessment in the US -

http://www.awra.org/impact/0207impact.pdf


Foster and Matlock wrote a great article (OK, I am biased) on the history of the CWA in the Sep 2001 issue, among other great articles -

http://www.awra.org/impact/0109impact.pdf

The Jan 2002 issue was sub-titled "The New Economy of Water" and provides six feature articles from as diverse a group as Mark Rosegrant (CGIAR), Penelope Brook (Worldbank) and Debra Coy (C. Schwab)-

http://www.awra.org/impact/0201impact.pdf