Show WILL HARNESS THE COLORADO the government reclamation service has under consideration the building of dams across the colorado and green rivers for irrigation and power purposes and it is expected that this project upon its accomplishment will redeem many thousands of acres of arid but fertile lands and at the same time provide power for mining industrial and various other industries the news of st george utah in reviewing the proposition says in order to aid the government reclamation service in its proposed plan to harness the water of the colorado river by establishing one or more dams in the river and its tributaries tributa ries at a cost of several million collais dol lais engineers connected with the local office of the united states geological survey water resources branch will next month establish automatic gauges in the green grand and san juan rivers E A porter engineer in charge of the local office fice yesterday received word from washington that john C hoyt engineer in charge of surface water divil division sion with headquarters at the capital has been assigned to utah to assist in the undertaking mr hoyt is expected to arrive in salt lake within the next week A survey is now being made by engineers of the reclamation service at the mouths of the green and grand rivers to determine the feasibility of building a dam and constructing a reservoir in the colorado below the junction of these two streams A reservoir such as is proposed would be capable of holding acre feet of water it is also probable that another dam will be built in the green river at bridgeport these would be utilized for irrigation power and control purposes that the control of the rivers water is the most important of the three uses is the opinion of mr porter he says that a loss of has been suffered in imperial valley california salt river project near yuma arizona and other projects in the lower colorado valley this year because of the inability to control the river at flood season he and hoyt will go september 3 to points on the colorado below the mouth of the virgin river and study conditions necessary to the best establishment of the gauge to determine the colorado rivers discharge later in the month the local office will establish automatic gauges at bridgeport on the green river green river on tile the green above moab on the grand river and below bluff on the san juan river |