| Show 4 Dry Gulch projects in Duchesne County get state approval Two units of ot Dry bry Gulch Irrigation Co Thursday of last week won favorable action from the State Board of ot Water Resources at a meeting In Vernal but substantial federal grants will wilt be necessary before either proposed project can become a reality A number of satellites operate In Duchesne County under the Dry Gulch umbrella These classes each elect a director to represent them and help make d decisions at Dry Gulch meetings Each Bach class is responsible however for its own improvements and their financing Class K K 2 2 proposes to install an estimated 29 million gravity sprinkle irrigation system on the acres it serves Class D is looking at a non non- pressurized pipeline to serve each delivery point along the Sheehan and Martin laterals covering about acres and gravity sprinkle for Cor the 2428 acres in the Handcock Cove area Total cost would be about 35 million Officials of the Soil Conservation Service are optimistic the classes may be able to obtain Limited Watershed Resources Conservation and Development or Environmental Protection Agency funds to finance at least half the cost of both proposed projects Each class now is hampered by a shortage of mid and late summer water high seepage losses in delivery systems poor efficiency and andover andover andover over irrigation during spring runoff Both have been a diversion of three feet acre-feet per acre by the State Engineer but neither has had that much water to apply to the land With proper cropping available water could be adequate for both classes Class K K 2 2 however would have a higher percentage of oC pasture and grains Tentative cost sharing proposes from the Board of Water Resources providing class K K 2 2 obtains a agrant agrant agrant grant of ot The class would put into the project at the outset Funding runding for tor Class D b would be from the Board and from the sponsor providing in federal grant money is obtained for the project Agreements whereby the classes would buy the projects from Crom the Board Hoard were left leCt open since neither can be constructed without grants of ot at least half of the construction cost It was suggested the Board might want revised feasibility reports after federal assistance has been obtained Board authorization of the projects does not commit the State to par parr participation participation in the financing That will be decided by the Board only omy after alter approval approval ap ape of the federal grant money i r W w F 3 9 WORKMEN PUT the finishing touches on a concrete slab which lays the ground work for the new Furniture House addition to be completed in July f LI ill LI I I. I II j n J inn ii MI 1 Ti 1 1 |
