Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-16 | Page 11 | Citizens Plan to Reclaim Swamps

CITIZENS PLAN TO RECLAIM SWAMPS Utah Lake Association Proposes Dredging Dredg-ing Jordan and Lowering Level of Lake. Special to The Tribune. PROVO, Feb. 15. The Utah Lake association as-sociation met here this evening in the interests in-terests of the big reclamation project, consisting of the reclamation ot 1S,0CU acres of swamp land in Utah county and providing water for SO, 000, acres in the sonth end of Salt Lake county, j Those interested in the project con- I template co-operation with the Salt j Lake county people to secure water for ! irrigation from the Jordan river. Prob- j ably efforts will be made to secure ; government aid under the arid and j swamp land reclamation acts. i It is proposed to dredge the Jordan river from it9 mouth to the lower dam ' of the Salt Lake & Jordan Canal company. com-pany. This will draw water from Utah lake so as to bring its level about three feet below the present low-water level. Bv lowering the water in the lake about ! 18,000 acres of swamp lands on the shores of the lake in Utah county will be, drained. 'The project includes diking to pre- I vent the lake from overflowing the I drained areas during the high-water season and raising the channels o j Spring creek and other streams that j flow into the lake through the swamp : lands. ! The committee to secure data from j government surveys which have already been made as to the probable acreage that can be drained and other facts of ! importance to the project was appoint- j ed. It consists of V. S. Hinckley, C. i H. Taylor, Clyde W. Lindsay and Le j Roy Jensen. : As soon as the committee has com- I pleted its work a mass meeting of the citizens will be called to hear its re- Port.