7 17 11 h d 1 fl A itu AT FAR LEFT can be seen the floating dock of the marina In the foreground Forest Service personnel Install a public dock that is tan feet longer than last year to accommodate additional boats The level of Flaming Gorge is now rising at the rate of a foot per day Staff photo Bennett Urges Appropriations For Water Unit Sen Wallace F Bennett Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday of last week urged the t h e House Appropriations Pub Ii 1 1 c Works Subcommittee to approve a number of Utah reclamation projects including the funds for forthe forthe the start of construction of the t Is e Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project The citizens of the state o 0 f Utah have for decades looked forward to the time when water from the Colorado River cou I 1 d be and made avail able to meet the essential needs of wide areas of the State The T h e I Central Utah Projects Project's Boone Bonne vile ville Unit would help fill those needs he said Sen Bennett asked the com committee to approve 35 million so that construction on the Bon Bonneville neville Unit can begin in fiscal year 1966 The Central utah Project is the heart and soul for Utah of the entire Upper Colorado River Storage Project for through i t Utah will realize the major par por tion of her share of the water of the Colorado River now backing up behind the large dams he told the Committee The Senator traced the his h I s tory of the project and pointed out that it eventually will fur f u r nish water to Duchesne and Uin tah Counties in the Uintah Basin and will provide a great new n e w source of supply to Utah Wa- Wa Wasatch Wasatch satch Salt Lake part of Sum mit Juab and Sanpete Counties in its initial phase Ultimately water may be sup sup- plied as far south as Garfield plied County including such intervening ing counties as Sevier Millard md and Pluto Piute HE SAID A 35 Cm m million I construction program would pro pro- provide provide vide for initial acquisition a 0 f fI I right and award of the t h e construction contract for Starvation I tion Dam and access road and the award of initial contracts for relocation of roads and utilities ties tics In the reservoir area He said It would provide for forthe forthe the acquisition of way right a y yand and start of construction on SolO Sol Soldier dier Creek Dam in connection with the Strawberry i r enlargement collection of field data and t i a t Ion of con tracts for relocation of roads in inthe Inthe the res area and preparation tion of specifications for con c a n of Water a 0 w Hollow Tunnel Tunnel and Open Chan Chan- Channel Channel nel number two HE BE ALSO urged the Commit Commit- Committee Committee tee to fund a full for forthe forthe the start of construction of the t h e Dixie Project and for continuing work on the Emery County Participating Project He urged the Committee to include for the fir f I r s t phase of the Jones Hole Nation Nation- National al Fish Hatchery in Utah 40 40 for the first year study of a reconnaissance investigation 0 of ofSan f San Juan County to bring water to that area and asked for dele dele- deletion lion tion of 1 million item for the t Is e BP A line in Southern Idaho