Show w l I Officials f ff f. f I S W Warn arn i. I r i-r Flo Floods ds Threaten o S Nephi i Power Por Pl Plants ts i Foresters Forester r st IS Als Also Afraid 1 For r Store Storage g 3 NEPHI March Forest For gt of offic officials lie S J f lab Is declared the Marsh Canyon Area from which Nephi City receives re re- elves Its culinary ul ry water supply a I critical problem for flood control contro which must be bc handled Immediate Immediately ly or on face the possibility Uty of losing g the springs pipe line canal al and ad d doyen oven oyen run the tile danger of f d destroying the e. e m municipal power plants plant located In tn Salt Creek Canyon in a meeting g before the Nephi City Council ann and anaa a i n number of citizens at the thc Cit Cil City H Hall ll J. J E. E Martin regional for or or the Forest Service and BailE Bailey Eailey director of the he Inter n- n tali t forest and ran range e experiment q t stations pointed d out the d dangers ngel's i of th the M Marsh sh h Canyon District due to tD the thc destruction of forage through farming fanning and over grazing md stated that unless something w was s done to divert the torrential that ar are every Y yell year year cutting cutting ret through t this section that It was only a matter of a short time until the water supply would be destroyed Suggests Acl AcI Action Ion n oise Jr of Provo Charles Der DeMoisey DeMOises' supervisor super o of t the e Uintah int h National ago a Forest orest suggested that t If f Nephi C City ly lyV V would uld purchase the private ate property proper proper- ty in tills this area that a camp would vo ld be bc available to come com into the Nebo district and terrace and plant plant Into forage this district like it had bad done In the Davis is Count County Area rca H He also suggested that a it p petition tIti m be he sent to the local congressman nt Abe Ace Murdock asking that this area which is adja adjacent ent to the Forest S I Service be made a apart part of f. f the n na national na- na forest If this w was s done done it J it would b be bC but ut a matter of a few Ci years ars when the he government J would purchase t this is land from the city I H He furth further r stated that thata a camp could do nothing to to assist J in the ther problem r blem as long as a. it was under private control i Nephi City ha hu an approved WA for this d district which would allow aulov f for l' l the building bunding of R a adam dam darn and some rock te terracing bulIt but bul It was stated by the visiting offic officials dIS that this this' would not take c care ic icor of or the danger a as s it would not riot h hold held holdback ld back th the storms that come down that t forked c canyon ny n The pr problem bl m mth th that t thad h had d to be bedone done was one of the volume of these h storms in the area from which th they a begin and then diverting the ther r amount t th that t might reach the he head head- d. d house and springs wl with wIli h some dams and terracing I Advises Advise Flames Mr Martin p pointed out that if cit could afford it It it would he e city b tie fa be-fa far safer to p place ace some ome cement work r over over- the proposed dams ana 5 terracing and build a cern cement nt base over ove which the water could fl flow w I without undermining tn ng the ir ground r 1 u d. d He also suggested Ute the building Oi 01 a to encase the main water ater pipe at this point and divert t 5 the e water over this flue and pipe r the than under it The land Jand in Marsh canyon has b been en offered the city at 5 per S acre cre or Ot approximately for forS forthe fori S the he whole and steps are arc now DO underway underway un un- un- un officials to derway by y city c purchase pur chase this land Jand and begin work Immediately to save Sayer an e. e expense ense o of many thousands ls of f dollars if it is allowed to go For Forest st officials have gone gone- over el I tJ s area a number of times call can Jing mg attention n to the d danger nger th that t lurks there but tl the dama damage e of the IA pas p year with torrential torrel storms Jias thas led to the fact that it is a ariti critical i t cal 1 situation at the present time |