Show 4 BASIN PROJECT BACKERS BACKER'S rilE FILE UN ON WATER Irrigation Power Rights Sought Applications to appropriate the water vater necessary to carry out the proposed Great Colorado Basin river river river riv riv- er project were filed Monday with State Engineer T. T H H. Humphreys In two applications the Colorado river-Great river Basin Water Vater Users' Users association asks for the rights to acre feet of irrigation water and second feet of water for power generation pur pur- poses All water applied for is inthe in inthe inthe the upper tributaries of the Colorado Colorado Colo Cola rado river In Utah The project contemplates the production of more than horsepower of electric energy electric energy in a series of power plants plants' on the Green river and the diversion diversion diver diver- sion slon of enough wa water ter from the Colorado basin to the Great basin to bring new acres of land under irrigation and provide supplementary supplementary supplementary sup sup- water for several thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand more acres already being ir ir- ir Long Aqueduct The water would be diverted into in into into in- in to an aqueduct miles long and conveyed to the west side of the Wasatch mountains at points above Thistle Nephi and Fairview and from there distributed to lands ina ina In Ina a number of counties for irrigation purposes One of the applications seeks to appropriate irrigation water on the Green river Brush Creek Ashley Creek Dry Fork Mosby Creek Whiterocks river Farm Creek and Pole creek all in Uintah Uinta county and the Uintah river west fork of Lake fork east fork of Lake fork Rock Creek and Duchesne river all allin allin in Duchesne county The power application seeks the right to the use of second feet in the Green river in Daggett county for a series of seven hydroelectric hydroelectric hydroelectric hy hy- projects proposed to be built along this stream The water Water water wa wa- ter from one would pass downstream downstream downstream down down- stream into the backwater of the reservoir at the next dam Projects Listed The proposed projects and their Continued on Page 8 |