| Show us Army my Engineers s See Flood Problems Uintah County Commissioners met representatives Tuesday with tives of the US Army Corps of Engineers to discuss and make site on-site inspections of pro bably flood areas during the runoff next spring COMMISSIONER D Blayne Morrill reported Tuesday that that morning they had inspect Inspect- Inspected ed Ashley Creek and later would go to Whiterocks River drainage the sites of the greatest flood perils The problem of avoiding floods will be approached from two angles the commissioner said First cleaning channels and second building diversions lIe said that army engineers told him that they could help on one stream up to a cost of 1 million Before any action is taken a Continued on page 8 Floods Continued from page 1 lot of data must be obtained Commissioner Morrill reported Commissioner S Harold Me Mc cc al that l I Jay ay IlIg am chairman of Utah Water and Power Board had initiated the action to obtain the cooperation of the army engineers and Mr Bingham also had reported that Governor Calvin L Hampton Rampton had approved the use of utah National Guard equipment to ale al- flood dangers BOTH commissioners report report- reported ed at Vernal Chamber of Corn Com merce Tuesday and at that time Commissioner Rulon S Hacking was still in the field with the engineers The three US Army Corps of Engineers representatives were I Major Robert T de district engineer of the Los Angeles engineer district Claro Clar- coca ence planning engineer Los Angeles and FW McGregor utah resident engi engi- engi engineer neer It was warned last week that the watershed is soaked many channels are overgrown or filled with debris from past storms and new snow snow already is build ing up It was reported that about 18 high reservoirs that normally are arc empty at this time of the year are arc filled and inaccessible due to recent snowstorms MR BINGHAM has said that the best solution would be to drain the reservoirs before they overflow with next springs spring's thaws but the reservoirs at pre pre pre- present sent can be reached only by hel he- he Also meeting with the corn com missioners were Glen String String- ham barn utah Water Research Lab Les Haueter Moon Lake Water Users Wm n IL Green Green- Greenhalgh Greenhalgh Bureau of Reclamation Provo Prove Lorin Hunt Soil Conser Conser- Conservation Service Ben W Lindsay Uintah County extension agent Richard E B Griffin extension serve Logan Joel E Fletcher Utah Water Research Lab Logan Louie Galloway water commissioner Uintah and Lake Fork rivers Hugh W Colton rancher Buell Bud Bennett Vernal City manager Ivan Bastian deputy water com commissioner missioner Uintah and White White- Whiterocks rocks and Wm II H Crozier Chairman water users Uintah and Lake Fork rivers |
