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Show Guardsmen To Test Minersvllle Lake for Phosphates and suckers to take over Instead In-stead of game fish. Cpt. M. D. Brelnhold, commanding officer of the Beaver unit, stated that several sev-eral men from his unit will collect the samples once monthly during the year at Minersvllle Reservoir. Svc. Btry. 2222 FA, Utah National Guard In Beaver, Is participating with the Utah Division of Health In a year -long environmental project. Operation SAV-A-LAKE. The project, which Includes In-cludes Minersvllle Reservoir, Reser-voir, Is part of a statewide sampling at 109 tributary sites to determine the potential poten-tial for water quality damage. dam-age. Major General Maurice L. Watts, the Adjutant General of Utah, said the Guard has been authorized by the National Na-tional Guard Bureau In Washington, D. C. to assist state authorities in the Identification Iden-tification and analysis of eu-trophicatlon eu-trophicatlon threats to selected se-lected Utah lakes and reservoirs. res-ervoirs. Eutrophication occurs when nutrient enrichment, principally phosphates and nitrates, stimulates algal scums and causes shallows to be choked with masses of rooted plants, allowing carp |