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Show I sportsmen and others interested 1 are attempting to have the gate put in, even though the work will ; be more difficult because of the 1 large head of water rushing through. The WPA will furnish the labor for this job. Water l.'sers' Canal Installation of the canal, which ! has cost about $7,000, is financed i by the Associated Canal companies compan-ies interested in Utah lake water. The object is to take the water that normally spreads over the Mud lake area by a more direct route into Utah lake and thereby conserve a great amount of water that would otherwise be lost by evaporation. Although about 90 second feet is being drained out, the Mud lake is apparently losing but little in I depth because of the enormous amount running into it. "The Utah state fish and game department and Utah valley interests in-terests are anxious that a control gate be installed in the main canal before the work of cutting back DRAINAGE OF MUD LAKE IS PROTESTED Control of the drainage of Mud lake in order to provide for waterfowl in the spring and autumn, has become a vital point in the minds of Utah county interests. Sportsmen all over the state envision a depleted stock of ducks hecause of the construction of a huge drainage canal recently. They demand the installation of a control eatc. A party of men visited the project proj-ect Tuesday, examined the canal which has recently been cut from Mud hike to Utah lake north of the Big Channel, a distance of about one mile. The canal is now flowing approximately 90 second feet. No Control Gate When this drainage was started it was verbally agreed that a control con-trol gate would be installed in the canal, in order that the water could be backed up and spread over the Mud lake area in the spring and autumn for the benefit of the great number of waterfowl that ordinarily nest there in the spring and rest and feed there in the fall on the south migration, according to Mayor Mark Anderson, Ander-son, who is vitally interested in preserving Utah lake. But the canal has been cut and no control gate is installed. Now into the lake progresses any further," fur-ther," Mayor Anderson said Wednesday. Wed-nesday. "All agree with the canal companies that the project will be of general benefit to all interests concerned if prqper control of the water is provided, and dates for opening and closing the gates fixed by written agreement," the mayor said. The water could be drained from the area during the warm summer months when evaporation is at its peak. R. C. Towler of the Salt Lake City engineering department, said that the water users in Salt Lake valley, wanted to do the right thing, but they would be disappointed disap-pointed if the WPA fails to go through with the drainage laterals as originally intended on the project. proj-ect. Roscoe Boden of the WPA informed in-formed the group that it was in the plans of the WPA to make these laterals, and also to cut Provo Pro-vo city's sewer outfall straight through to the main canal, but the work had been temporarily suspended because of the weed eradication program which took the men. H. B. Makin, president of the Utah State Fish and Game association, asso-ciation, expressed disappointment that the control gates had not been installed before the water was let into the canal. He also indicated that his association would not support any further drainage laterals by WPA crews unless a control gate is definitely assured and some plan of controlling control-ling the flow of water agreed upon up-on in writing. On March 4, Mayor Anderson wrote to W. D. Beers, Salt Lake City engineer, protesting the draining of Mud lake unless gates were installed to handle the water wa-ter as desired. He also pointed out that Utah valley interests would pursue a vigorous course to resist further depletion of Utah lake. Others in the investigation party par-ty Tuesday were William Crump, state fish and game department; Henry Jensen, Utah and Salt Lake Irrigation company; Joseph Hib-bard, Hib-bard, South Jordan Canal company; com-pany; J. R. Allen, East Jordan Canal company; Sidney Belmont, president Provo Conservation association, as-sociation, and J. P. McGuire, Provo Pro-vo city commissioner. |