Show OTHERS' OTHERS VIEWS A RESERVOIR I have read a great deal and heard a lot of talk about the storage storage storage stor stor- age of water and for such Last summer proved to us that we need some place to draw from fromin in years like 1931 I I think we water-users water depend too much on our engineers to tellus tell tellus tellus us where we should build our dams They find a spot measure and figure dig test pits and wait I till Ull another year then do more preliminary work wOrle then in a few months and sometimes years they decide to start to build the dam The people are then put under bondage for the rest of their lives for the water they use Why not I store the water without these costly dams When the snow piles up in the Mountains and the wind blows and drifts it into the canyons and hollows hollows hollows hol hol- lows we feel to rejoice because it lies there many times all summer summer summer sum sum- mer gradually melting and feeding our streams from which h we draw our water These mountains in the Basin are full of reservoir sites that can be developed at a small cost and thousands of feet acre-feet of water can be stored The expense expense ex ex- pense of which would have to be borne by all water users as all would be by it Suitable places would have to tobe tobe I be chosen the same as when choosing choosing choosing choos choos- I ing a damsite You could try I this method on a small scale first This ice like its it's sister snow I find a suitable place In a small stream that is running to waste during the cold winter inter months Dig a trench deep enough to protect protect protect pro pro- from freezing Then place the box or pipe and cover over Leave a pipe projecting with small holes on top side Lay this pipe I around a hillside where the spray from it would fall into a deep canyon canyon canyon can can- yon yon and there pil pile up an iceberg such as had never been seen be be- be fore Take a pipe or wooden box and would melt and feed our streams thereby giving us plenty of water all summer at a very low costIm costIm costIm cost Im I'm suggesting this as a try-out try to save the people of the basin thousands of dollars Why wont won't it work CYRUS A THOMPSON Lapoint Utah I |