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Committee advances bill to recognize historic homestead stock ponds for water-claim purposes
Summary
The Senate Natural Resources committee passed House Bill 251 (1st substitute) to allow diligence claims for pre-1903 grazing-homestead stock ponds that capture only precipitation and to set a 20-acre-foot threshold for recognition; sponsors said the bill helps families relying on historical records to preserve small, on-property water features.
Representative Chu presented House Bill 251, the first substitute to clarify how historic grazing-homestead stock ponds may be recognized in Utah water law. She said the measure is narrow: it lets landowners rely on historical evidence, such as family journals and other records, to prove a pond’s historic use and preserve stock ponds that capture only precipitation.
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