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MURRAY, Utah -- The state engineer is taking care of some old business, like Al Quist's request 27 years ago to drill a well.
Quist just got word that his application has been denied.
``The letter came just the other day,'' Quist said. ``We would have been hurting if we had been waiting for that.''
Quist's problem in 1976 was that he had a broken water line and it was the middle of winter.
He thought it might be cheaper to drill a 500-feet well for household use and to irrigate his 1.75 acres in Murray.
However, when he found out how much the well was going to cost, he opted to replace the line, though he had to wait until spring when the ground had thawed.
Meanwhile, his application remained on file with the state. Quist's application had prompted a protest by Murray and there was a July 1977 hearing that he never attended, having already put in his line.
State Engineer Jerry Olds said another 200 applicants likely will get similar denials because of a recent groundwater management plan that says there's no more water in Salt Lake Valley to be handed out.
With the new groundwater management plan, old applications that had been set aside for one reason or another are being resurrected and rejected, he said.
``It's not like we lost the file and just found it.''
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