{"id":818,"date":"2018-04-23T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=818"},"modified":"2023-01-11T15:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:26:27","slug":"introduction-of-allegations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=818","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CURRENTLY PENDING WITH<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8211; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=10455\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Following the Pivotal\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8211;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3975\">UNANIMOUS DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2bEPqIzQ9gc\">Hearing Before the Utah State Engineer &#8211; The ECHO-Association Presentation<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2bEPqIzQ9gc\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6784 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/015CF5B4-DC8A-4120-BD23-F3AE6BFA10B4_4_5005_c-300x157.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"1.0\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">For the first time since the the Mormon Pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley over 170 years ago, it<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/environment\/2018\/09\/08\/why-is-emigration-creek\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">was reported<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">in September 2018 that the Emigration Canyon Stream suffered total depletion near the eastern boundary of the Utah State capital city<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0less than 2 miles from <a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Protest-Letter-Salt-Lake-City.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Utah&#8217;s Hogle Zoo<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"5.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">Over the past 30 years, Emigration Canyon residents <a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3155\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">have reported impairment<\/span><\/a> of private wells directly to the Utah State Division of Water Rights (&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waterrights.utah.gov\/contact.asp\"><em>Utah State Engineer<\/em><\/a><\/span>&#8220;) immediately following the completion of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3202\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Boyer Well Nr. 1<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3202\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Boyer Well Nr. 2<\/span><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3202\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Brigham Fork<\/span><\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3202\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Upper Freeze Creek Wells<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1661\">The Boyer Company LC<\/a><\/span> and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emigration Improvement District (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecid.org\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">EID<\/span><\/em><\/a>&#8221; aka ECID) operated for the massive expansion of the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=6117\">Emigration Oaks PUD<\/a><\/span> development.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"7.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">The destruction of single-family domestic wells by large-diameter commercial wells\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3310\">was accurately predicted <\/a><\/span>by the Utah State Engineer&#8217;s office in 1966.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"9.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">The impairment of the Emigration Canyon Stream\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=2204\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">was accurately predicted <\/span><\/a>by EID&#8217;s own hydrologist in 1995.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"11.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">In July 2000, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=3310\">EID&#8217;s own hydrologist recorded<\/a><\/span> that <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=5916\">Boyer Well #2<\/a><\/span> had extracted more water than had been replenished in a good water year (<em>i.e.<\/em>, groundwater mining) but then failed to disclose this fact when it secured $1.8 million of federally-backed funds to construct the <a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=5332\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Brigham Fork Well<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the same aquifer.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.142857143rem;\"><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"13.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unbeknownst to its water customers,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.142857143rem;\">in September 2015,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EID trustees\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=5851\">secretly terminated operation<\/a><\/span> of the Brigham Fork Well due to <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=5014\">drinking-water contamination<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.142857143rem;\"><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"15.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">The Purpose of the FCA Litigation Is Twofold:\u00a0<\/div><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"17.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">\u00a0\u2666 \u00a0Relieve Emigration Canyon taxpayers of $6.3 million dollars of federally-backed debt, which the<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> <a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1856\">Mayor of Emigration Canyon Joe Smoka<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1661\">EID<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.142857143rem;\">allegedly <a href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1329\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">conspired<\/span><\/a> with land\u00a0<\/span>developers<span style=\"font-size: 1.142857143rem;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1129\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">R. Steve Creamer<\/span><\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1661\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The Boyer Company L.C. and City Development Inc.<\/span><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1310\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">fraudulently acquire<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1315\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">then divert<\/span><\/a> in order to build a \u201c<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1326\">preposterously oversized<\/a><\/span>\u201d water system for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1184\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">massive expansion of the Emigration Oaks PUD<\/span><\/a> as well as over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1425\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">500 new residential units<\/span><\/a> at an estimated private profit of $547 million dollars <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.sltrib.com\/article.php?id=2618507&amp;itype=CMSID\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">as reported in the Salt Lake Tribune<\/span><\/a>;<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"eds-animate edsanimate-sis-hidden \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"19.5\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"2\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"load\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2666 \u00a0R<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ecover monetary fines, penalties and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/definitions.uslegal.com\/u\/unjust-enrichment\/\">unjust enrichment<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0from EID trustees, managers, consultants, publicly-elected officials and private land-developers <em>et al.<\/em> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=5014\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">endangerment of public health<\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1442\">safety<\/a> <\/span>as well as the<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> <a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1211\">destruction of habitat<\/a> <\/span>of a <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bonneville-Cutthroat-Trout.pdf\">federally-protected species<\/a>.<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8029.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8029.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8029-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8029-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8029-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8029-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CURRENTLY PENDING WITH &#8211; 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