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Senate narrowly approves resolution supporting Narrows Water Project after heated debate over impacts

Utah State Senate · February 5, 2009
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Summary

Senate Resolution 2, urging state support for the Narrows Water Project in central Utah, passed after floor debate. Opponents warned the reservoir proposal could harm Price River irrigation users and said the Senate should not take sides; sponsor cited completed studies and recommended advancing the project.

The Utah Senate voted to pass Senate Resolution 2, a nonbinding measure expressing support for the Narrows Water Project in central Utah, after a substantive floor exchange about water allocations and local impacts.

Senator Okerlund, who presented the resolution, said SR2 "addresses the need for water development, economic development on the Narrows Water Project in Central Utah, specifically in Sanpete County and resolves to show state support to the Bureau of Reclamation and the United States Congress to…

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