Show WATER DISTRICT MOVE APPROVED FOR DEER CREEK GREEK Project reject Interests Agree on Beginning Construction on With Lake Plans to include lake In the Deer eer Utah creek lake project to avert averta a water shortage and to form a metropolitan met met- r water district and a water users' users association were approved d at meetings of oC project Int interests resti at the c capitol Friday The proposed legislation which would create a district was read and explained e at meetings of chairmen of oC v arlous arious committees for the project a and nd of representatives of municipal municipal- t ties ies es in Salt Lake valley It was pointed out the act follows c losely one in effect In California but g ives the proposed district wider powers p Would Be Be Subscriber The district would serve as suh sub s scriber to water which it would in inurn inurn turn t urn sell thereby acting as jobber i It also t-also would be liable for amortization t tion ion of a federal loan to finance the p pl project and would be empowered to levy l evy a property tax to tomake make up any deficits The district would comprise municipalities mu mu- in the valley while a proposed water users users' association would Include farmers The a. a ocia t ion tion would be held jointly liable for amortization and would contract with t he the government for the water Olden Ogden Meeting l Planned Some fear was was was' expressed over the double liability liability- feature and when it i iwas was explained the same system is used at the Pine View project at Ogen Og Og- den en it was decided d to meet with the Weber River Water Users Users' association contracting agency for the project at the Ben Lomond hotel in Ogden I Thursday at 10 a. a m. m The executive committee for r the project reject also meeting at th the thc capitol discussed lake water water and and agreed greed that construction of f the ct should begin with building of f lake dikes ikes as well as with work ork at D Deer er creek reek The it was pointed out would avert a a water shor shortage ge during process process' of Deer creek construction The executive com committee will meet i in n the Newhouse building office of its chairman William R. R Wallace at t 9 a. a m. m Monday to discuss reports of ol E. E 2 O. O Larson federal reclamation Itt en Ineer on of Utah lake |