The standard unit of measurement of the flow of water shall be the discharge of one cubic foot per second of time, which shall be known as a second-foot; and the standard unit of measurement of the volume of water shall be the acre-foot, being the amount of water upon an acre covered one foot deep, equivalent to 43,560 cubic feet.
Utah Code § 73-1-2
Unit of measurement -- Of flow -- Of volume
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Bingham v. Roosevelt City Corp. (2010)
Most recently applied in Second Big Springs v. Granite Peak (March 2023)
No Change Since 1953
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Utah State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Utah statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.