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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A team of state employees is finding it can't afford hotel rates in the boom town of Vernal.
The water engineers are making arrangements for a summer of field work around Vernal, 128 miles east of Salt Lake City.
But they can't find a hotel that will accept the 60-dollar-a-night state allowance.
So the seven engineers are making plans to sleep in trailers at Steinaker State Park, about seven miles outside town.
The engineers will spend the summer around Vernal sorting out irrigation and individual water rights in the Ashley Creek basin as part of a court case.
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