In the early days, residents of Leeds bucketed their drinking water from the irrigation ditches. They had until a certain time of the morning to do so, after which the animals were turned out to use it. In 1923 the Fifth Judicial District Court of Washington County, Utah, issued a judgment called the “Quail Creek Decree” which describes that Creek’s location, grants water rights totaling 43,560-acre feet to various entities and individuals, and describes the water as being of a quality suitable for “culinary, domestic, and other purposes.” Ultimately the water right was segregated for culinary, and irrigation uses, each managed by a private, shareholder-controlled company.

Continuing improvements to the irrigation system include a concrete sand trap constructed in the 1970s at the LWC diversion point where Quail Creek waters strike the east side of the canyon and in flood time carry a tremendous load of silt and debris. The sand trap feeds clean water into the canal clinging to the side of the canyon; in subsequent years the canal was also lined with concrete. The Silver Farm ditch was privately pressurized in the 1980s, and in 2005-06 LWC secured a loan to enclose the canal, Leeds Creek, and the open ditch along Main Street and fully pressurize the balance of the irrigation system.