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Show FJiill Creek Project Goes to Vote In Pall Elections Voters of Grand County will be asked in November this year to authorize the issuance of bonds to cover local portions 1 of the cost of building the proposed Mill Creek Project, it was announced this wee" by K.E. McDougald, chairman of the Grand County Water Conservancy District. "We are far enough along with our planning both on the engineering and on the environmental assessment that we feel we must now get the approval of Grand County voters so that local funding of the project will be assured," Mr. McDougald stated. The project is now expected to cost in the neighborhood of $6 million. Already committed to the project is a total of $2.7 million from the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers, which will cover the flood control benefits attributed to the project; and $1 million from the Utah Division of Water Resources, which would come to the county in the form of a thirty-year, interest free loan. , A number of other state and federal funding sources are being studied, and Mr. McDougald Mc-Dougald stated that he felt sure that a number of other grants would be applied to the project, which would make Grand County's actual cost quite small compared to the total. The Corps is working full speed ahead, he stated, and is nearly finished with the environmental assessment. The State Division of Water Resources is likewise working full time on the project, and currently has an engineer, Larry Anderson, working in the Moab area on final gathering of data for engineering, engineer-ing, Mr. McDougald stated. One new feature of the project which is being currently studied, is the possibility of construction of a reservoir on the Spanish Valley side of Sheeley Tunnel, near the old county airport, to provide gravity-fed water for proposed farmlands near the old airport. "As we promised at the last public meeting on the project, we are planning another public meeting in mid-summer, when the engineering plans are completed, so that any persons with questions on the project will be given an opportunity to have those questions answered," answer-ed," Mr. McDougald stated. "Things have been a little quiet about the project the past few months, not because we didn't have a lot to say, but because there was a lot of work that needed to be done to firm up the two major studies and get firm commitments on the money," McDougald said. |