§ 41-4-316 — Examination and measurement of capacity of streams and works diverting water; maps or plats

It shall be the duty of the state engineer or some qualified
assistant, to proceed at the time specified in the notice to the
parties on said stream, to be adjudicated, to make an
examination of said stream, and the works diverting water
therefrom, said examination to include the measurement of the
discharge of said stream, and of the carrying capacity of the
various ditches and canals diverting water therefrom; an
examination of the irrigated lands and an approximate
measurement of the lands irrigated, or susceptible of irrigation
from the various ditches and canals, which said observation and
measurements shall be reduced to writing, and made a matter of
record in his office; and it shall be the duty of the state
engineer to make, or cause to be made, a map or plat on a scale
of not less than one (1) inch to the mile, showing, with
substantial accuracy, the course of said stream, the location of
each ditch or canal diverting water therefrom, and the legal
subdivisions of lands which have been irrigated, or which are
susceptible of irrigation from the ditches and canals already
constructed.