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Show Sisil Creek Prelect UppSicofion Sybsiiffed By Gv. tanptai The Utah Wa.hr Resources Division Tuesday submitted formal application, which included in-cluded designs and specilica- tiuns, to the Corps of Army Engineers, for construction at the earliest possible time of the Mill Creek Project. Director of the Water Resources Re-sources Board, Dan Lawrencei informed K. E. McDougald, chairman of the Grand County Coun-ty Water Conservancy District, Dis-trict, that the application went out over the signature of Gov. Calvin L. Rampton. "We consider this project number one," Mr. Lawrence said, "and are confident that the application and designs wil be given favorable consideration con-sideration by the Corps of Engineers. Despite that decision, de-cision, however, we fully Intend In-tend to build this project," Mr. Lawrence told McDougald. McDoug-ald. Under arrangements agreed upon between the Water Resources Re-sources Board and the Grand County Water Conservancy District, the State of Utah has now become the official applicant for this project. Money required locally to fund any portion of the pro- ject not undertaken by the Engineers, will be pid by the Stale; of Utah out of In.j Water Development Revolving Revolv-ing Fund which the Legislature Legisla-ture last week enriched to the tune of $1 million. At the time of construction, Grand County's Water Conservancy Con-servancy District will ent-.-r into an agreement with th1. State of Ltah to repay the money from the Revolving Fund over a period of years. The State charges no interest inter-est on monies lent to project from the fund. Chairman McDougald stated stat-ed that after construction of the project, payments to the State of Utah would be made principally from revenues received re-ceived from the completed project. The massive project, pegged peg-ged at an estimated 2 to ?3 million, would involve tho construction of an earth-filled dam in Mill Creek Canyon Can-yon just east of Moab, and the creation of a large reservoir reser-voir behind the darn. Waters from Mill Creek could then be diverted into Spanish Valley, Val-ley, and utilized on South Mesa to increase agricultural agricultur-al productivity in the County. Other major benefits accruing accru-ing from the project would be flood control and recreation. |
