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Show WATER STORAGE PLAN ADVANCED OGDEN Storage of water In artesian ar-tesian reservoirs in Davis county Is the intent of a unique project now under way by the U. S. forest service, ser-vice, according to Reed W. Bailey, director of the lntermountain forest for-est and range experiment station. Increase of the artesian water supply, which would be available to farmers during the season it is most needed. Is planned by catching run-off run-off water in trenches on the hillsides hill-sides and percolating it through the oil to the artesian reservoirs. Most of Ihe water howbecomes lost in Great Salt lake. The runoff water will be carried through 1000 feet of 10-inch pipe from the Centerville creek area to a spreading basin that is three-fourths three-fourths of a mile long. TS feet wide and 10 feet deep. The basin has been constructed along the 4900-foot 4900-foot level of old Lake Bonneville. "Spreading of water over large areas, to allow it to seep through to artesian reservoirs, is being prac- j ticed to save water that is now lost I to "agriculture," Mr. Bailey ex- j plained. "The project is being i sponsored In canyons that are too small to make dams practical." The plan has been tried successfully success-fully in California, where similar conditions are found, and may be applied generally on the west side |