Tombstone should have had from long ago , a surveyed right-of-way for the waterline. It probably was even deeded to the city. Even if not the city should be applying for the two as part of the project. The Feds could go pound owlburger if there was a right-of-way for the line. The line should have carried a “water right”. In many cases that right-of-way becomes part of the city. So many times I see these things get out of hand because the young fuzz-faced kids running the town don’t know the rules, don’t know how to look up the rules, and just keep playing the pressure hoping for a useful outcome. I’ve stopped several of these fights in their tracks locally simply by explaining the old rules to the diaper crowd.——the snivelers just shut up and slink off.
Would that explanation be by the old "shotgun barrel up the fourth-point-of-contact" method?