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      From: "bonnie lee" <heavenlyhiker@xmission.com> 
      To: <snakevalley@utah.gov> 
      CC: <snakevallley@water.nv.gov> 
      Date: Tuesday - August 18, 2009 12:52 PM 
      Subject: A Billion$WATERpipeline? 




      Possession is still 9/10 of the law...no matter which of distant mountains 
      is or is not a point of origin.  The water, in 
      other words, belongs to the folks/ranchers upon whose lands the
      water IS! (Or IS under).
      The REAL point of origin of this ridiculous scheme to waste the taxpayer's 
      monies; appears to be 
      surplus DOI agents.  Surplus BOR
      agents, a case in point:
      George W. planned to eliminate the BOR in Utah for the obvious reason; we 
      do not have any SURPLUS residential waterfront properties in this desert 
      state.  Typically, these properties are:
      "kept in families and do not go to market."  The words of MAI waterfront
      appraiser, who prefers to remain
      anonymous, who in response to an
      inquiry about "replacement" property,
      one of "your rights when the government wants YOUR property"
      that you are not likely to easily receive
      in Utah; responded with "there are none."
      In gross and flagrant abuses of eminent domain; BOR agents, in collusion 
      with
      Central Utah Water Conservancy District; in an attempted full taking of 
the
      entire Crescent Lake Estates Subdiv.,
      consisting of 106 lots, Sand Wash
      Reservoir, Duchesne County, Utah;
      hope to emerge Guardians of the Wildlife they have displaced with no 
      thought whatever for Displaced Property Owners.  They appear to have
      been on a rampage during the entire course of the Bush Administration 
      "taking" all of Utah's waterfront properties in any/every county that has
      allowed them access.  (All they have to do is falsely allege the 
      waterfront property owners have suddently become a "threat to the water 
      supply.")
      There's a "threat to the water supply"
      alright, but it isn't coming from the
      waterfront property owners.
      16+ years later and yet to receive any of
      our rights or Constitutional rights to just compensation; much less "you 
      have the right to a 2nd appraisal" after their BOR
      residential appraiser failed to even get the zoning distinctions correct.  
      Meanwhile, BOR/CUP agents have already divided up their ill gotten gains;
      65% - 35%.
      Residential waterfront properties, for those of you who remain clueless; 
      started @$3200. per front/linear foot in
      2004.  They have since appreciated to
      $3500. per front foot in 2009.  In Florida, they are about ten times 
      higher, while on Lake of the Ozarks, (in 2004),
      the range was $1,000. - $3,000. per front foot. (National Standards for 
MAI
      approved Waterfront Appraisals.)
      With fully two thirds of Utah's 82,144 recorded square miles in BLM,
      Fish & Wildlife and Indian Lands, (only
      20% in Duchesne County); buffer zones are maintained; (i.e.; waterfront 
      property
      owners); to PREVENT gross and flagrant federal and state over reach.
      We attribute the subject point of origin
      to be: surplus federal agents; attempting to steal the wealth and the 
      effort of Utah's waterfront property owners who now qualify for the
      Endangered Species Act.
      And, we attribute surplus DOI agents in Utah to the Affects of 3rd world 
      birth rate in 1st world country, (i.e.; #1 Mortgage Fraud Capitol of the 
      Nation) with surplus federal agents being a major underlying cause of 
      Utah's dubious title.  In celebration of China's
      new Mormon Ambassador to China; China has lifted its ban on one child per 
      couple.  Get ready for the
      Resource Wars!
      Wake up Middle Class property owners of Utah!  Your private property 
      rights,
      the very foundation of the American
      Dream, (no pun intended), are under
      siege by lawless, parasitic and adversarial federal and state agents
      who are stealing the wealth and the effort of Utah's waterfront property 
      owners for their singular purpose of maintaining their addictions to the
      taxpayer's pocketbook.  They are
      dangerous!  You need to support guys like Cecil Garland, Rancher, as these
      guys no whereof they speak.
      Thanks for letting me share. It seems we still have our First Amendment 
      "rights" to Free Speech.
      Bonnie Lee Reynolds,
      Displaced Waterfront Property Owner