Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-19 | Page 15 | Officials Scan Water Project

OFFICIALS SCAN VATERPROJECT Parley Discusses River Diversion Plan Proposed development of the Bear river and Green river drainage baalna for supplemental water were to be dlscusssd at a meeting Friday Fri-day afternoon of officials of ths United States reclamation bureau and reclamation and engineering officials of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. E. B. Debtor of Denver, hydraulic engineer of the bureau of reclamation, reclama-tion, and other officials arrived In Salt iMkt City Friday and conferred with T. H. Humpherys, state engineer. en-gineer. The conference will consider, Mr. Debler said, tha proposed Green river-Bear liver diversion project which would divert water from the green to the Bear liver for supplemental supple-mental water supply in- Utah and southern Idaho. At an estimated cost of t30.000.000, the project would provide aa additional addi-tional 100.000 acre feet of Irrigation Irriga-tion water. Purpose of the meeting is for ths officials to become acquainted with progress being made In Investigations Investiga-tions now under wsy in stream In which ths three states are intsrsst-sd. intsrsst-sd. Future of ths Investigations will also be discussed, Mr. Debler said. There will be a great deal of development de-velopment In the basins of the Green and Bear rivers within a few years, Mr. Dsbler said, providing a larga amount of supplemental water wa-ter and a limited supply of water for expansion Into naw arsaa.