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<br />. <br /> <br />filed by BIA for tribal and allotted lands to be served from the White River totaling 5,470 acres. <br />Diversions and depletions for these lands are quantified at 26,256 and 13,127 acre feet <br />respectively. These are the only reserved water rights on the White River. The White River is <br />not included within the General Stream Adjudication in the Uintah Basin and would have to be <br />separately adjudicated. <br /> <br />Group 7 lands: Lands lying east of Green River which have been found to be productive and <br />economically feasible to irrigate from privately constructed ditch systems diverting from various <br />streams, totaling 12,807 acres. Diversions and depletions for these lands are quantified at 59,227 <br />and 29,116 acre feet respectively. <br /> <br />Water rights for the Groups 6 and 7 lands maintain a January 5, 1882 priority date unless <br />otherwise indicated in the Tabulation. <br /> <br />For all the above rights which would be confirmed under the Compact, there will be a proceeding <br />in the state court to enter a decree confirming the water rights in a compact. Non-Indian water <br />users will have an opportunity to protest. <br /> <br />2. WATER DEVELOPMENT IN THE GREEN RIVER BASIN <br /> <br />The largest storage facility in the Green River Basin is the Flaming Gorge Dam located on the <br />Green River near the WyominglUtah border. However, a primary influence on the Green River <br />Basin has been the various other Federal and non-Federal water projects that have been <br />developed during the past century throughout the Basin but principally within the Duchesne <br />River Basin. Following issuance of the Federal Court Decrees adjudicating a portion of the <br />Tribe's senior reserved water rights in 1923, non-Indian water development increased at a rapid <br />pace. That development was both privately and federally sponsored with extensive federal <br />development initiated after passage of the Cololado River Storage Project Act of 1956 (CRSP). <br />None of the completed development provided any storage or supplemental water supply to the <br />Tribe or tribal lands despite the clear understanding ofthe need for storage to achieve a full water <br />supply for the lands in the Uintah Indian Irrigation Project. <br /> <br />STATE AND PRIVATE WATER DEVELOPMENT IN THE DUCHESNE RIVER BASIN <br /> <br />With the exception oftraditional diversions by Native Americans, the first major diversions from <br />the Duchesne River Basin began as early as 1879, when settlers in Heber Valley began diverting <br />water collected in the Strawberry Valley to Daniels Creek for agricultural use in the Bonneville <br />Basin. Concurrently, a number of "in basin" users diverted water directly from the Duchesne <br />River for irrigation purposes and to meet the needs of individuals living along the mainstem and <br />its tributaries. <br /> <br />28 <br />