Show Consel Conservancy vancy Dist District Tells Years Year's Activity The seventh annual report of f Uintah Water Conservancy District has been released Officers elected at the an an- annual nual meeting were B H president Leon P Christensen first vice dent Leland second vice president and L Y Ski Sid secretary manager Directors are Division 1 II H LeRoy Morrill 3 years Division 2 Leon P Chris Chris- Christensen 3 years Division 3 Leland 1 year Div ision 4 n B H 3 years Division 5 Alvin Kay 2 years Division 6 Curtis D Dudley 2 years and Division G Grant n Pi Pickup J year r LELAND and Grant Pickup were were reappointed ed directors for division No 3 and No 7 for year three terms The report said that many legal problems have been placed before the District as asa a a result of the beginning of the Vernal Ul Unit t and especially ally as s a result of diverting the water from the canal system tern tem into the reservoir begin begin- beginning ning November I 1 1963 1963 The Vernal Unit of the Cen Central Utah Project commenced operation January 1 1963 Prior to that date the first payment was made to the theU theU U S Government of for municipal water sales The District also paid to the theU U S for the opera tion and maintenance of the project during the first year year m IN ORDER that the project could operate with the best possible results under the Bureau of Reclamation aVer a Ver- Ver Vernal nal Unit Committee was established composed of rep principally pres presidents of each of the canal companies and of Ashley Val Val- Valley ley Reservoir Company The chairman of the committee Continued on Page B 8 Water Continued Tram Irom page 1 was the manager of the Con Con- Conservancy District L Y Sid Numerous meetings mcc were held After the high runoff per per- period iod of Ashley Creek the Conservancy District announced ced there would be about feet acre of water In Reservoir for de livery under the Irrigation contracts for 1963 There also would be available the full amount of municipal water 1600 feet acre THE B BUREAU UREA U of Reclamation tion is planning to add several additional turnouts in the service canal to Improve the delivery of project water for forthe forthe the future This will help In Inthe inthe the exchange of water to the upper part of Ashley Valley The Bureau also aloo Is planning to line some sections of the service canal where seepage problems problem have been indicated ed through the the- first years year's op The annual report claims that the water from I er during the past year has been the difference between a complete cro crop failure and an excellent yield In September Vernal City began the installation of live stock water connections Ull un- un under der a contract with the US and Uintah Water Conservancy District About 60 of the 10 connections planned have been made A PROPOSAL to establish a Seven County Water Con Con- Conservancy District has been under study by the Conser vancy District for about three years Uintah County has petition petition- petitioned ed to join the proposed dis- dis district district providing the following point four proposals are ac accepted by the other counties involved L 1 Municipal Water that our existing munIcipal water supplies will not be diminish diminish- d ad by diversions to the Bon Bonneville neville Basin either In qualIty ity or quantity and that planning and de development will wUl provide for future mun mun- municipal supplies of the same quality to tD take care of future growth 2 INDUSTRIAL water water- that future planning and de- de development development will provide for an Industrial water supply need ed in the development of Our many natural resources 3 Fishing and recreation recreation- that dry str stream eam beds will not result from diversions to the Bonneville Basin and th that t the overall fishing and recreation Industry will be enhanced ced That stream flows will willbe be established following con con- consultation with fish and game agencies 4 that Irrigation a water supply be made available to irrigate all lands that can be feasibly irrIgated in Uintah and Duehesne Duchesne counties both Indian and non Indian lands through a comprehensive de- de development development of the Central Utah Project including the Jensen and Uintah units and Importation of water from the Green River and through the development of the Juni- Juni Juniper per Project T H 11 ESE E S E proposals were supported The necessary petitions properlY e executed have been obtained from the landown landown- landowners ers and the Seven County Water Conservancy District petition was filed with Dis Dis Court December 16 It is the plan of Uintah Water Conservancy District to be heard by the District Court concerning the four point proposal as supported d dby by the local people A definite planned report on the Jensen Unit is sched scheduled for July 1964 The pro jest has been discussed with the Bureau of Reclamation as asto asto to whether It will be a pump unit from the Green River r the construction of the Reservoir on en Brush Creek or a combination of both THE REPORT said that the plan appears to be sound as Jensen people would benefit from the tax levy of the Sev- Sev County En-County District and local people would be in charge of the operation The Bureau of Reclamation began the Investigation of the Uinta River Unit during the past year Congress has ap- ap approved ap proved to begin this investigation in the Ouray area The Bureaus Bureau's present stu- stu studies studies dies are concerned with land classification and drainage A feasibility report is expect expect- expected expected ed by the end of fiscal year 1967 A study committee has been created to study both the Lake Fork and Uinta Riv- Riv River River er units THE BUREAU of tion has transmitted to Uin- Uin Uintah tah Water Conservancy Dis Dis- Distract tract a copy of the reconnaissance sance r report of the Juniper Project in Colorado and Utah The report proposed an in and ultimate phase Un Un- Under del der this plan Utah lands would not be serviced with irrigation water until the ulti mate was wast dev loru Th The Conservancy n-cY n Di District I Board following a field trip to the site of the proposed pro pro- project on the Yampa River said they were in favor of a phase one development rather than delay the development of Utah lands until an ulti- ulti ultimate mate phase DryFork REFERRING TO 10 the Dry Fork Project the annual re- re report re- re report port said that progress has not been spectacular but ob- ob objections objections raised to the project are being resolved The water right agreement between the Mosby people and Ashley Valley people is being prepared for presenta tion to District Court Investigations b by the Soil Conservation Service has demonstrated that there is sufficient land of a suitable to this To resolve the question of water rights plans are being fInalized for an Investigation in the Dry Fork area to de- de determIne determine termIne if there is water that could be collected at the sinks that Is not already ap ap- appropriated EARLY THIS summer the indicated that it would be necessary for the local people to raise about to carry out this investIgation Further conferences with the and the Bureau of Reclamation have resulted in ina ina a proposed contract whereby the would provide for this investigation the Bureau of Reclamation would provide Utah Water Power Board will provide and local peo peo- people pIe from the irrigation company com com- company pany level will provide about BESIDES THE funds need need- ed each agency is adding sev- sev several several eral thousand dollars of tech tech- technical technical help to supervise and to interpret the results U S Geological Survey Is also assisting in the investigation tion When the proposed survey is completed It is hoped that groups will have the information lion tion as to how much water is transmitted from from the Dry Fork Sink area through the valley fill and into Ashley Creek and what effect the proposed Dry Fork Project will have on the existing water rights of Dry Fork and Ashley Valley |