Show v vZ Z W I n Her Ner Vas Vast t W Water Wate ate r Su Supply p ply 6 AS A X z ys he ho dependable direct flow from c forso c rive rives rive's is JS not nt for tic e lands or ar arl i 1 many let ier I 1 auli ir livers the along halve have the been been Lal fork Lal-fork Corl dr storage lI 11 Moon Lake Lako Water Vater S Use s 1 i 11 mountain reservoirs on the Luke fork riv river r rin in to Twin Potts Potti Moon Lake and res roe shave s have b ben en constructed Five mountain reservoirs on the Uintah river five r on the White river and Montez Mon Creek have been J dc de by the Dry Gulch and Whiter ks companies Following Following la b an outline of the res reservoirs e- e and their capacities N iI I Idler Ili Ith er Aero Acro fret f et etI I j i Kidney Lake 4 Island Lake Brown Duck Lake 00 Clement Lake he bhe r h he e Point Lake 5 4 4 Drift Drift Lake Bluebell Lake Lake Miller Lake 25 Deer Lake Lahe Farmers Lake Twin 1 Potts Reservoir 3 acre ftP ft ftP P ejects to be completed this year Reservoir 5 acre feet Moon Lake flee Res acre oGre feet This makes a 0 total of 46 acre feet of water to which will willbe I b bt added 12 acre feet f om the Duchesne river direct flow through the Duchesne rt Ider canal Rl er Acre feet Lake Atwood 1 Upper Chain Lake Lower Crain Lake Inke BOO Fox For Lake 1 Cre Crescent cent Lake River Inver Aero Acre feet Paradise Paa reservoir 1 Lake am Lake 1 Moc tsin Lake e Papoose e Lake 78 l Creek 1 1300 This Thia make male a total of oC acre aCle feet of water from the Uintah and White risers erS and added to the 46 acre feet front from the theLa La river plus the 12 DC ac e a feet from fJ om the flow of the Duchesne river through this Duchesne Feeder canal Is a total of 65 acre feet of or stored wate i 1 for lands on the and Whiterocks rivers in Itt addition to the di dl flow I received in var var- varIable variable variable quantities tic as it is available The cost of the storage reser reservoirs reservoirs voit enumerated above is probably probably probably ably about 1750 or somewhat loss less than 30 10 00 pC po acre foot of wa water r Normally Nonn this amount of or water I will not hot L be Le available and the pro pro- program program program gram of use mu- mu mut t be bo so regulated as to leave lease part of the stored I supply in th tho tha reservoirs each year yeal for early use the sp ing I alei In la S Security Due Duo to the fact that allotted I I idian land lands landa hold bold the primary water rights there has always been en an el element m of g cat eat uncertainty Inthe in inthe inthe the operations of farmers farmere on homestead lands in the Uintah Basch Lack of water to prepare I tho iho soil for early earli planting prIor to high water period and for ir ini-gation ini i- i gation of crops iao so o planted ha has handicapped the people on these lands and ltd led kd them to d plant plant- ing planting until such time as os the watt supply was assured Of course cour c I cI this has hus been essentially n a pro program pram grunt doomed to failure Not t 11 r tit th the fall of uno 1996 has hai there thele- el 0 m er been any eel eol nce that I 1 I Water would bo he for Cor there homestead lands as 01 em Iy as ns might need it tI tl e a follow I in 1 hag Ing J lime Hie he co at atlon l n of wate Ini in l storage toraKO volts will thu thus i loulIn ul In a n mote definite program o Vole wo-k an and planting on th the part tart o 0 othe othe the on homestead land landan an and replace failure with at least some degree of pro l I i Mud TIle The mode ate amount of water In the small mountain reservoirs while serving the tho e as fat far fara'S aS a'S it would go was wac wholly I to meet neet the demand o a aI acres of land The ad- ad ad additions provided by the Moon Lake I and l reservoir to ethe with the direct flow Clow through through the Duchesne Feeder canal brings th total available supplemental water supply to such popo that aU all secondary users mel may play feel eel eve In years of drouth a n measure of security The Montez Creek res- res rese rese res-e res e voir with Its definite double use adds to this measure of safety I Possibilities The lands now under construct construct- constructed ed canals ca dl which arc not provided I with storage water have in m con considerable t L been dor or abandoned during the recent I extended drouth penal Amon Among thc these a e lands lando Is Ie some of the mot I fertile soil soU which is the basis bals for forI I l farming I The conservation ot of our water supply should proceed to the point that those these lands ore are a assured of at 1 ka least kast t one acre foot of water In stOl storage age for each acre of land for this b being Ing success success- Cull fully successfully accomplished a n e c existent and th this tho co cost t will be bo no greater uter than that which has aheady been done or is in course of being done This applies somewhat to certain cartain C i 7 l lan Ian ls is under the Dry Gulch Ill It i- i gati m n system tem and more marc to M- M Mm to lands land east of th the Uintah river under the White ocl s Irrigation Irn- Irn Irrigation gation Moffat and Ouray pi p canals These facts should be an for lor ou ou- ou continued ef- ef efforts efforts ef efforts forts lII j |