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newrecordconfirmed Water: Valar says it has the shares it needs and seeks up to 1,000 more, in a year of critically low reservoirs
2026-07-09 · loc-017 · Valar Atomics, Orangeville City Council, Castle Valley Special Service District, Cottonwood Creek Consolidated Irrigation Company, Utah Division of Water Rights · CVSSD outside-district water connection fee approved for Valar (19 Feb 2026): $20,000

What local records show about Valar's water: 11 December 2025, Orangeville approved a future 8-inch water line for Valar's new building, Valar saying it 'acquired the necessary water shares', on condition that fees are paid and the correct shares turned in (minutes). 19 February 2026, the utility district approved a $20,000 connection contingent on all shares being submitted to Orangeville (loc-015). 9 July 2026, Orangeville minutes: the 1,000 water shares under discussion are 'still in the discussion phase' and not for the data center; Valar told the county on 21 July the extra shares would support future development on the land it is buying (mine-042). For scale, the mayor told the council in November 2025 that the city itself held 998.4 Class A and 94 Class B shares of Cottonwood Creek irrigation water and was still 89 shares short. On 16 July 2026 the utility district reported 'critically low reservoir levels' and Orangeville's secondary water at 233 acre-feet for the year. Which company's shares Valar holds or seeks, and how much water 1,000 shares represents, is not stated in any record read. Utah Division of Water Rights records, where a change of use would be filed and advertised, could not be searched: its search pages sit under a path its robots.txt closes to all automated readers (sources_not_read).

In plain termsValar says it already has the water for its current buildings and wants up to 1,000 more water shares for future growth. That is about as many shares as the whole town of Orangeville holds, though shares differ in size and nobody has said which kind Valar wants. The same summer, the local water district was warning of critically low reservoirs. When someone files an application with the State Engineer to take or change water, the state must advertise it in the local paper and people can protest; we could not search the state's water-rights records, so a resident should check them directly.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-read the Orangeville minutes (Nov 2025, Dec 2025, July 2026), CVSSD Feb and July minutes and ETV reports: holds. Replaced a quote that did not bear on water. The plain field's notice-and-protest statement now cites the statute and a notice.

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