Show f I i r I TEN BULLDOZERS team learn up to clear Ashley Creek of j boulders boulder's and deepen channel beds In an effort to prevent pre vent flooding this spring D D. D E E. E Casada Construction Co Is being hired by the U. U S S. S Corps of Army Engineers to do the clearing work The dozer in in the foreground Is a D D 9 9 and is able to move an enormous load with every swath y y's s ra yak r Ar a SIZED SIZED SIZED-R ROCKS KS have been placed aced alo along g banks banks' banks banks' of of bridges Along Iong Ashley Cr Creek ek o prevent wash outs Th The ro rock kis Is blasted out of a quarry located at of Mail Drawe Draw e east st of and hauled by County road crews to the bridges bridge's This bridge is the theone theone theone one leading to ta Diamond Mo Mountain Flood Control Work Well Underway on Ashley Creek Ten hungry Caterpillar r bulldozers bull dozers arE are working their way up Ashley Creek pushing cob ble Me rocks to th the side and deepEning deepening deep deep- ening suing the creek bed The work is being done by the US U.S. U S Corps of Army Engineers and is an an- emergency program to prevent pre vent flooding during the anticipated anticipated anti anti- d high runoff period this spring D D. D E. E CASADA Construction Company is the contractor hired hired hir ed by the Army Engineers to todo todo todo do the work The equipment is Is' working 11 hours a day in order to rush the job through The work started Monday of last week at the point where state highway 44 crosses Ashley Ashley Ash Ash- ley Creek and has progressed upstream to the bridge near the Hugh W W. Colton residence by Wednesday morning STEW BONNEMORT as resident engineer for forthe forthe forthe the U US U.S. S Army Corps is directing dir the clearing and snagging snagging snag snag- ging project He said operators of the equipment plan to work their way to Merkley Park and then come back and do some work downstream from highway highway high high- way 44 particularly around the Vernal Municipal golf course which is threatened to flooding by the Ashley Creek Mr stated Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day that the work was just about one one half half finished Concurrently with the US U.S. Engineers work the Uintah County road crew crew has been hauling rock and placing it around the banks of all the bridges along Ashley Creek to prevent washing around the buttresses and cutting around the bridges Some of the rock is so large that only one will fit in a heavy duty dump truck VERNAL CITY is working on several trouble areas along the city water main above Merkley Park and are placing large Jarge cement blocks and rocks where high water erosion is likely to occur At the County Commissioners Commission ers era meeting Monday it was reported reported re reo re- re ported that everyone was cooperating cooperating co co cooperating operating in signing rights of rights of way and that the flood control project is moving ahead very satisfactorily The U US U.S. S Corps of Engineers is also working on a project on the Duchesne river just north of Duchesne Mr Bonnemort Bon Hon reported This has been a trouble spot in years past and it is hoped to be cleared out to prevent any further flooding |