Show brovo projects the wasatch wave brings news of an extensive new irrigation project in provo valley designed to take water from provo river the wave saya it ia designed as a high water canal with option on the waters from the ontario drain tunnel As a general thing the diversion diver aion of the high waters in apper balleys at a season of the year when weter anna to waste ia beneficial to lower valleys the upper valleys act as a reservoir voir and the water remains there slowly percolating through the soil tha hot reason of the year the truth of the beneficial results under the circumstances named bad been established beyond doubt on a number of streams in utah the sevier is drained dry a number of times by canals and the water finds ite way back to tha bed ot the river again a few miles below the ary dam savior county used toba very over this process carried on in diute and garfield counties until they found no bad results when the waters were diverted early in the season the trouble is however that these high water canals usually become low water cabala then an injury is dona to the lower valley late irrigation in the upper valleys is not beneficial to the lower valleys just anuw provo complains 0 water eaid to ba diverted without water right at charleston wa are not well acquainted with the merits of the case to pass judgment but we do know that late irrigation in these so called high water canals usually work a hardship on the users of water in the lower valleys va lloys utah county will watch closely the high water canals in wasatch county |