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Show Rehabilitation of Flooded Lands Nearly Completed Rehabilitation of the dam. caused by the 1952 floods in ! Timpanogos Soil Conservation ri trict was about completed rii, the year 1953, said G Hinckley, Chairman of the w? on completion of the annual ren' of the district. report The work along the Hobhi Creek and Provo Rivers was na tially completed in 1952. HoweveV the farms in the lower land around the lake remained to be renainS in 1953. pairei The following practices hav. been completed under the flood rJ habilitation program in an effort to restore flooded lands to prodn, tion: 742 acres of land have bn leveled, 7 miles of farm drains?,: constructed on farms west i Provo and Springville, 19,900 linci feet of dikes rebuilt, approxirnatelv 8 miles of farm ditches rebuilt aZ recleaned, 412 acres of land cover ed by the lake have been deep til ed to help restore the soil 500 acres of irrigated pastures reseed. Canal companies in the district also have completed most of th repair on their distribution gv7 terns. With the completion in Dp oember of the diversion structure in Hobble Creek by the Mapleton Irrigation Co. that, with som! minor exceptions, completes repair of damages done to irrigation structures by the 1952 flood. Other irrigation companies who have completed structures are the Port Field Irrigation and the Little Dry Creek Irrigation on the Provo River and the Springville Irrigation Irriga-tion Co. on Hobble Creek. In addi-tion addi-tion 6764 linear feet of canal lin-ing lin-ing was installed during the year to help conserve water by the West : Union Canal and the North Spat, cer Canal., Technical assistance was furnished furn-ished by the Soil Conservation Ser-vice Ser-vice in the planning and establishment establish-ment of all the above practices. |