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Show Strawberry Water Shortage Seen At a meeting recently held in Spanish Fork and which was attended at-tended by the mayors of all the cities and towns of the southern part of Utah county also presidents presi-dents of the canal and irrigation companies under the Strawberry project, the matter of a very definite water shortage that exists on the project vas discussed. dis-cussed. Project Engineer C. H. Jex, who has made a water study of the project covering the past decade, stated that eight out of the last eleven years the project wiber resources had failed to produce sufficient water to supply sup-ply the water right contracts of the project. The average yearly production from the water resources re-sources during the last efeven years, he stated has been only 64 per cent of the water right contracts. A delivery of more than this amount was only made possible by holdover storage in the reservoir which accumulated during the early years of the project while the canal systems were under construction, and by several years of excessive precipitation. pre-cipitation. Even a delivery of full contracts is only considered by the project settlers to be 66 per cent of a water right The city officials' present at the meeting unanimously voiced their . opinions relative to the exigency of obtaining an increase in the water supply of the project, realizing that unless additional water is provided the cities and communities of this locality which are dependent primarily on their agricultural resources will be unable un-able to endure, to say nothing of the hoped for future growth and development. It was the concensus of opinion of all present at the meeting that they concentrate their efforts toward to-ward obtaining a make work project, proj-ect, in accordance with President Roosevelt's public works program, pro-gram, for the, purpose of providing provid-ing an additional water supply for the Strawberry project. Currant Creek a tributary of the Duchesne river was proposed as the possible source of supply. It was stated that by means of a feeder canal approximately 25,000 acre feet of unappropriated water could be diverted by gravity grav-ity into the Strawberry reservoir during an average year. Due to the fact that Utah lake is the natural drainage for this section, the raemtfrs of ttie committee com-mittee felt that liey could look for support for such a project from the Utah lake and Jordan river interests. |