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Show National Magazine Reports on Utah's Glen Canyon Dam The mammoth new Glen Canyon Can-yon project marks the parsing of the country's last great frontier, fron-tier, a wilderness' of brooding desert and moonscape scenery, Neil M. Cark comments in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post. His article, "Giant of the Colorado," Colo-rado," says that some hate to see it go, but others welcome the prospects of employment in a region that has provided few job opportunities. Meanwhile, business, agriculture agricul-ture and industry see it as opening open-ing new doors and millions of vacationing Americans are expected ex-pected to eventually benefit. Clark relates that forty years of dreaming, planning and bitter controversy preceded the off icia1 start of the dam work under the terms of public law 485. The bill, he says, provides for the development of the Upper Colorado River Basin's water resources re-sources over a 110,000 square-mile square-mile area in Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Ari-zona, Colorado and New Mexico. The appropriation, not to exceed ex-ceed $760,000,000, is the largest single sum ever authorized for any Bureau of Reclamation project. proj-ect. "The purpose is to provide effective control of this vast system sys-tem for multi-purpose water use. Fed by melting snow in the high Rockies, the river flow is erratic seasonally and from year to year. "The structures now to be built are expected to regularize the flow. They will hold back the floods in big snow years and give up some of their reserve in dry years. Thus both upper and lower basins will get a reasonably reason-ably constant flow of water for power, domestic use, irrigation. irriga-tion. "This in turn will permit development de-velopment of many almost untouched un-touched upper-basin areas." Clark's report concludes with the observation that "things we like to keep will go, but opportunities oppor-tunities beyond anything we can surmise are certain to supplant them." |
