Show I 1 high water e perils canals thru valley abnormally high temperatures tor for this time of the yeah year have caused an unusually heavy water runoff that temporarily pora rily endangered some of the major canals canal throughout ashey valley it v some roads and fields were flooded for a short period but no major damage has beet been V 1 reported ported ABNORMAL settling around four drop structures on Stel feeder canal has caused a reduction in the amount of spring ru runoff boft that win will be diverted for storage wednesday morning A 0 13 construction co prime contractor L on on stalnaker Stel service loei canal was called to aid at highline canal on the lower dry fork canyon road where about yards of canal bank was giving way and I 1 cutting into the county roal road the company used a to deepen the canal the previous week the contractor had been bee called to aid in supporting the collapsing banks on the upper ashley canal in the gunes glines area the canal ran over its banks in three to four places and about too yards of canal bank began to crumble water covered some roads and fields but crews turned the water Into ithe High highline tine canal the additional load in highline then caused trouble la I 1 w there VISITORS to oakes park reservoir said bald that itis it Is half full and has risen 4 three to four feet in about two days the road to hacking lake is inaccessible about six to sevelt evert miles this side due to large and water running in OU all directions it was reported flow down Stel feeder canal has been reduced from up to 35 second feet of water to five second feet fee t because earth around four structures settled more than was expected thus endanger ing the feeder canal f three failures of drop structures were noted and one partial failure bureau of reclamation engineers blamed thi the condition on not having water earlier to is season the canal and the back backfill till around the structures TEMPORARY repairs are planned to enable the canal to handle a limited flow engineers did riot not take a very pessimistic view of the reduction in runoff water as they estimated ithac it was unlikely that the limited water supply would be sufficient to fill the acre feet dead storage capacity of the reservoir this season deaso I 1 it was forecast that the th high runoff will MOO cease laa in a week or so and water prospects for thol the rest of the season will be poor |