Show Water Supply on East Bench Augmented By Flood Waters in Dyke In spite of the fact that this has been one of the driest drie t years on rec rec- record record ord the underground water waler supply below the he new dyke on the east ea t bench in Bountiful has been us- us good Observations and inquiries in the area between the Barton creek and andI Stone creek reveal that mull much good I has come corne from the water waler which I was turned into the lie dyke in the flue early spring The water level has I raised in wells Veils and a great increase t i in volume of springs and drams drains Many I which have run no water for jor fori forr r 1 L J i years years are now delivering delivering- a consider considerable considerable able BeCause of the difficulty of de- de delivering de de- delivering livering water from Deer creek Past East canyon or Echo reservoir thug the 7 underground water supply becomes more and more important to the people of South Davis county The city council is to be corn com commended mended for this Uis project Fire Protection Ve We have far so this year had no serious brush fires on the water watersheds wat watersheds r sheds of the mountains east cast of Da Da- Davis Davis Davis vis county This condition c is not entirely luck hick it is an accomplishment Fire regulation has done much I r I toward this control Prompt fight fight- fighting ing ill of small brush fires has also alsa helped Another aid which few are mindful of is the work done along alon our foothills foothill with a bulldozer A wide strip is scraped clean of all vegetation weeds and anI rubbish that extends almost the entire distance from Salt Lake to Ogden perhaps farther It follows the old Lake Bonneville shore line closely along the base of the mountain It is scrapped each year in late spring spans It appears appe to the writer that this thio project and the project could each help the other were they to cooperate as follows Dykes could he made into each canyon and extended out along the foot hills to the other can canyon on making a storage dyke to be used in winter and early spring I while water wilter was obtainable Then Theil they the v could lie he cleaned out for fire prevention pr elltion during the dry weather in this be b The Che dykes could uld way wa b the fire re- re partly I by pre l prevention i work At t I present en fire fin prevention II t ion strips do not and amid can call not no to into the steep lan l'an IIII ami and a large area rea in inthe time the is left Idt exposed eX Again the operators of the bull bull- er do have ha much hooch 1 h territory to 10 travel in iu netting Belting from one IllIe side silk ol of the rum canyon mi to the lie other lither It Ii the dykes dys were lre made m. the trip would be hl closing dos all l fire gap gap- ap and ami reduce the tulle time and distance dl oi of travel awl from front one side s lI of the cam 11 on to IQ the other |