Show Stillwater tunnel awaits mole In preparation for delivery of ofa a mole drilling machine to excavate the mile long Stillwater Tunnel next spring an area is being developed northwest of Hanna lianna Duchesne County and Hamilton Construction Construction Construction Con Con- Duchesne is developing the area for the prime contractor Harrison Western-Cowper Western Houston Texas The outlet portal will be at Castle Cliffs approximately seven miles northwest of Hanna in the North Fork of the Duchesne River of the Ashley National Forest The inlet portal opened in April at Stillwater in Rock Creek Canyon to the northeast of the inlet portal ab about ut 45 miles north of Duchesne is being mined by conventional methods for feet according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the design The work is progressing at the rate of approximately 40 feet each 24 hours The excavation by blasting and digging has reached about 1600 feet Egon is superintendent of the work on the inlet portal WORK ON the outlet portal area includes a borrow on the north half The area will be irrigated to condition the material materia before placing it in the staging area and the access road to the outlet portal The area is cut out of the mountain and requires the moving of approximately cubic feet of borrow material The area will be leveled to form Corm the spot from which the laser guided beam-guided drilling machine will be serviced and main main- The area will be used for launching the drilling machine It will include a short access road from the main road built a afew afew afew few years ago as part of the tunnel project The tunnel is a segment of the Strawberry segment Aqueduct which will transport water from the Uinta Mountains Mountains Mountains Moun Moun- to the enlarged Strawberry Reservoir in Wasatch County A inch 72 steel pipeline siphon will transport water under the streambed of the North Fork of the Duchesne River The contract specifies million to com complete lete the project |