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Show Comp. News. Eilo E.ox 631 B Lincoln, Neb. 60506 Mill Creek Project reservoir should be done by 1980 Grand County Commissioners were told this week by officials of the Grand County Water Conservancy Conserv-ancy District that the SpanishValley Reservoir should be completed and ready for storing of water in the fall of 1980. The statement came in one of two meetings held this week by the Board, the first a regular meeting where progress on the irrigation-culinary irrigation-culinary water project was discussed, discus-sed, and the second a joint meeting with officers of the Spanish Valley Water & Sewer District, where that district's needs for water from the project would be detailed. "We should be coming before the Grand County Commission within the next few months with an application to allow us to proceed with construction of a road over Flat Pass, which is necessary for the Mill Creek diversion dam and work on completing the Sheley Tunnell, ' ' District secretary E. L. Schumaker told County Commissioner Leo Burr. Although necessary special use permits for the reservoir and road have not been yet finally approved by the Bureau of Land Management, Manage-ment, work is proceeding on those applications, and it is not anticipated anticipa-ted that any problems will arise in that area. Mr. Schumaker stated that he had been working closely with the BLM on clay deposits needed for lining material for the reservoir, and that work is proceeding in an attempt to clear those deposits for use. A number of details relative to the Mill Creek are now being worked out, directors were told. It is anticipated that the District will negotiate with land-owners in the valley owning large wells, to transfer those wells to the Distr- i in return for irrigation water froir the reservoir. The wells, then, would be used to supply culinarj water in Spanish Valley for sale to the Spanish Valley Water & Sewer District. That agency is currently awaiting final approval of a funding package which will allow it to provide culinary water to some 600 families residing in Spanish Valley who now are dependent on sometimes undependable small wells for culinary water. Those wells will have to be tested, Mr. Schumaker stated, to see if the water is of culinary qualify. Directors were told that the contracts between Moab Irrigation Company and the Special Service District had all been signed. They were further told that contracts were being studied and prepared , for transfer of water rights or to specify water rights ownership for the District and Moab Irrigation Company. |
