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Show $20,000 DAM FOR LAKEFORK Director William Peterson' Rcconi-' Rcconi-' mends to Stato Engineer Building Build-ing of Dam at Twin Potls. After making a careful survey of the water storage situation in the Uintah basin area, Director William Peterson of the U. A. C. extension service has just mady recommendations recommenda-tions to George M. Bacon, state eu-jgineer, eu-jgineer, for the building of a dam at nviu rots on tne west lone of LaUe fork, a branch of the Duchesne river. According to Dliector Peterson, a '!ara holding 2000 acre-feet oi water can be constructed there for from $15,000 to $20,000 or for about $10 nn acre-foot. -v.- Citizens o Boneta, Mountain Home and Talmagc, the communities j vh!eh the project would benefit, are anxious to push the unit through to compilation as the irrigation situation in that section is needing immediate relief. After making records of ih? available avail-able underground water supply, which was found to be brought to the :nrfaco from pipes driven through Oi.d rock, forming fifty or more artesian ar-tesian wells with geod pressure, Director Di-rector Petersen reported that there are a few which produce salt water, which makes the wells unfit for culinary purposes or for watering stock. Professor Peterson recommended that a more careful planning be made of the available culinary water supply sup-ply by storing ditch water in clstcrnq ond filtering It before it is stored. He checked the community water supply for Mountain Home, Boneta, Talmage, Allonah, Neola, Cedarview and Roosevelt and will make recommendations recom-mendations for more efficient sys- |
