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Show ! j - i J jk ft ' OLD CARS litter BLM land around the Vernal Landfill. Vernal residents are reminded that the $2 mi SI Son tfo be spera-J to desaltf Colorcado iuer A program to control salinity in the Colorado River will be implemented pixigh the ACP Program of the Uriculture Stabilization and Con-jitvation Con-jitvation Service in Utah. Iko million dollars is to be made mailable to farmers in Duchesne and '."jiah counties of the Uintah Basin to ;prove irrigation system efficiencies. The program is voluntary," said J. 3 'van Adair, state executive director of Utah State ASCS Office. "The imminent will provide cost sharing tor farmers who also provide a isn of the funds used for revising je irrigation systems." "The funding will be at such a level ii! it would be desirable on the part of farmer to participate." T:e program is scheduled to continue rie$2 million level for a ten year city has a contract to haul off old cars free of charge. period. A major reason for implementation of this program is an agreement between bet-ween the U.S. and Mexico signed several years ago by the president, which provides for water from the Colorado River flowing into Mexico to have a specific salt content. "It appears at this time that it would be more economical to improve irrigation systems than to build desalination plants to remove the salt from the water," Adair said. A similar program was implemented in Grand Junction, Colo, in Jan., 1979. The program would be handled in each county by the existing county committee and ASCS office, who operate an annual Agricultural Conservation Con-servation Program with farmers as a normal course of business each year. This county committee is elected annually by the farmers in the county. This makes the programs of ASCS particularly responsive to the problems in the county. The Soil Conservation Service in Utah has completed a study in the Uintah Basin which outlines the salinity problems and suggests ways to solve it. This study was completed a number of months ago and is one of more than half a dozen such studies in progress in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. The program to be implemented by ASCS is based on the study done by SCS. "For the salinity program to be successful, close cooperation between Federal, state and local entities will be necessary," Adair said. "Environmental "En-vironmental safeguards and prodecures will be observed and followed in implementation of the program." |