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Show SURVEY AWARDED EASTERN COMPANY Aero Service corporation of Philadelphia has been awarded a S2t,t84.39 contract for an aerial aer-ial topographic survey of the Strawberry reservoir area, part of early investigations for the potential Central Utah Project, according to E. O. Larson, region 4 director, bureau of reclamation. reclama-tion. Only other bidder for the survey sur-vey was Fairchild Aerial Surveys Inc., of Los Angeles, at $27,000, Mr. Larson said- Aero corporation was given notice to proceed with the contract con-tract award and will be allowed! 200 calendar days to complete j the survey. This aerial survey will provide necessary information on the i proposed enlargement of the' Strawberry reservoir for the pur-1 pose of storing flows of Uintah basin streams which would be diverted by means of a 110-mile collection conduit. The project would provide an irrigation supply sup-ply for 450,000 acres of land and would produce 1,900,000,000 kilo-1 watt-hours of hydroelectric en j ergy annually. |