Show Strawberry Enlargement Work Told Construction on the Straw Straw- Strawberry berry Enlargement Complex of the Bonneville Unit of the Central utah Project will follow within less than a year after the initiation of construction on the Starvation Complex ac ac- ac according cording to an announcement at atthe atthe the Central utah Water Conser Conser- Conservancy vancy District Friday at Provo First work will begin on the Water Hollow Tunnel The con can contract tract was recently awarded by bythe bythe the US Bureau of Reclamation to Boyles Brothers Drilling Company and Gibbons and Reed Construction Company of Salt Lake City The tunnel will be 10 feet 4 Inches in diameter and about 4 miles in length It comprises the downstream section of the Strawberry Aqueduct which will deliver water directly to the enlarged Strawberry Re Re- Re Reservoir Upon the completion of the Water Hollow Tunnell which will require approximate ly Iy 4 years for construction ad ad- ad additional water supplies will be diverted and made available for storage in Strawberry Reser Reser- Reservoir voir which In turn will he be made available to meet municipal in- in industrial industrial and supplemental ir uses in the Bonneville Basin other principal works of the Strawberry Enlargement Corn Com plex will consist of an addition addition- additional al 33 miles of tunnel and pipe line in other segments of the Strawberry Aqueduct the Current Creek and Upper Still Still- Stillwater water regulating reservoirs and the Soldier Creek Dam which is to be located on the Strawberry River 5 miles be- be below be low the existing Strawberry Dam Soldier Creek Dam will willbe willbe be the means of enlarging Strawberry Reservoir reloca reloca- relocation tion of Highway 40 to permit the enlargement of the Straw Straw- Strawberry berry Reservoir and the reloca reloca- relocation tion of the road servicing the camps on the west side of Strawberry Reservoir will be necessary because of the en enlargement The total estimated ed cost of all of the works of the Strawberry Complex will be approximate ly 88 million |