Show rocky 0 ford D dam am making a record twenty five thou thousand sand acre feet of water ready for spring salt lake jan 28 when lynn crandall assistant engineer of the local office of water resources of the united states geological sarv survey ey leaves soon for southwestern utah to make further the rexall examinations nations of tho the runoff run off of the virgin santa clara and beaver rivers he will center much interest in a record being established by ibb new rocky ford dam on the beaver at Ada mavillo in beaver county E imer elmer A porter engineer in ill charge of tcp local office of the united states geological survey has data which show that the now new dam recently completed is storing SO ro second feet of water every twenty four hours the loss from seepage and other causes cauer is indicated as less than 3 second feet of water which engl engineers neer neeri i consider remarkable for an earth dam it is estimated that the reservoir having a of acre feet of water will be filled before spring water resource engineers consider the new reservoir of great importance in the ahe general plan of storing as much wa water materas teras as possible for the next agricultural season with light snowfall in december and january experts expert predict that water for irrigation may become very scarce during july and august the rocky ford dam was financed ced by the delta land water company of milford and was built by D G martin former state engineer of idaho as resident engineer C A tush salt lake and berkeley consulting engineer and george A snow of salt lake manager |