| Show Grouting to start soon on Red Fleet Dam Construction work at Red Fleet Dam is about 12 percent completed and work is right on schedule according to Project Manager Ed Williams of Brown Root Western Inc contractor contractor contractor con con- tractor of the project 10 miles northwest of Vernal About 68 men are now on the job and 20 to 25 more will be in the Uie next two weeks When when concrete grouting g will start said Mr Williams Only one hour 10 shift five days a week is working on the project Next year when the earth fill starts two shifts will be working and around to men will be the peak labor force By the end of next year 90 percent of the work earth-work willbe will willbe willbe be finished and in 1979 the smaller items connected to the project will be finished The overall project has until the fall of 1980 to be finished according to the contract Working on the construction site are nine yard 30 capacity scrapers eight crawler tractors and three motor scrapers A concrete batch plant is now being constructed Dirt has been dug out from the abutments abutments abutments abut abut- ments and bottom of the dam damand damand damand and it is the goal to get geL back to normal ground level before the spring runoff arrives explained Mr Williams When the winter frost comes the earth moving operations will have to be shut down but grouting can continue since it will be below the frost level WITHIN a week some of the earth filling will start Fifty percent of the tunnel on the right abutment has been completed The Red Fleet contract in in- eludes building an access road recreation area and roads and boat ramp besides the general dam and reservoir con con- When completed the feet acre-feet of water stored in Red Fleet Reservoir will be used for irrigating farms in the Ashley Valley and for or a s supply to Vernal City for its growing mu and industrial iI needs Fishing lind and other water recreation activities on the lake will also benefit the local area The old county road into the construction has been closed and the new road turning tw-ning off Highway 44 at the Stauffer phosphate plant is the new access to the construction area Only authorized persons and those who have made previous arrangements are allowed near the construction work area cautioned Mr Williams |
