While I appreciate the informative article “Preservation fight simmers over the ‘Mormon Landscape,’” a major consideration in the equation has been neglected — i.e., the lack of water for further development.

Five generations of my family have come from Spring City and I cannot remember a time when water was not an issue. Years ago, irrigation water shares were issued without the required matching volume of water.

If one were to accurately calculate water shares issued with the amount of water available, there would be a discrepancy.

There are two water systems in Spring City. The first is the municipal culinary water system and secondly the irrigation system. The Horseshoe Irrigation Company services outside watering.

It is here the worst miscalculations have occurred. The required

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