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Show Morton Favors High Level For Lake Fovell Water Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton, said Monday that he feels that allowing water to flow under un-der Ra.nbo'W Bridge near Lake Powell would be aesthetically aes-thetically pleasing. Morton made the comment com-ment atter visiting Rainbow Rain-bow Bridge National Monument, Monu-ment, and stated that he had been assured by experts ex-perts that allowing the waters wa-ters of Lake Powell to back up under the bridge would! not erode its base and cause collapse of the bridge. P re s e n 1 1 y c on s cr v at i oni s f 3 have brought suit to compel com-pel the government to limit water storage in Lake Pow- ' ell so it will not enter Rainbow Rain-bow Bridge National Mon-Jument. Mon-Jument. Moriion also indicated indi-cated that if a court ruling in U.S. District Court did f.nd in favor of the conservationist conser-vationist groups, he would be in favor of building a dam to kciep the water out of the monument and still allow the lake to raise to the 3700 foot level. A proposed flight over the Kaiparowits power plant s!te near Lake Powell Pow-ell was cancelled by the secretary -when Sen. Wal- lace F. Bennett was recalled recall-ed to Washington, D.C. by PiMdent Richard Nixon. Bennett, ranking Repub lican member of the Senate Sen-ate Finance Committee, will be a key figure in bringing PiVsident Nixon's economic econom-ic reform measures before Congress next month. |