The Utah Supreme Court is again wading into a long-running legal battle about public access to rivers and streams.
On Monday, the state's top court heard arguments in another legal challenge brought by the Utah Stream Access Coalition, a group of anglers pushing for access to public water bodies. The legal issues discussed date back before statehood, with pioneer-era understandings and beliefs. What the Court decides could impact more than 2,700 miles of waterways.
The coalition is appealing a lower-court's decision rejecting their assertion there is a public right to access the water that also includes the stream bed. In questioning, the Supreme Court justices focused on whether that constitutional right of public access to the water also extends to the river bed or stream bed.
"There's not really dispute that the public used the waterways and the scope of that use included touching the river beds. And we don’t have examples of them being prohibited from doing that. It wasn’t illegal..." said Justice Paige Petersen.
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