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Show man of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, says this would be a suitable temperature for heating homes, churches, office buildings, schools and swimming swim-ming pools. Monroe officials are keenly keen-ly interested in the possibilities possi-bilities of utilizing underground under-ground hot water resources to heat homes and businesses. business-es. They are working with engineers and scientists of Terra Tek, Inc., of Salt Lake City, to determine the feasibility feasi-bility of establishing a geo-thermal geo-thermal direct heat demonstration demon-stration project in their community. Operating under a contract from the federal Department of Energy, U scientists are attempting to locate underground under-ground heat reservoirs for use in operating a geotherm-al geotherm-al heating system for Monro. Mon-ro. They are assessing the area's warm water potential and attempting to determine if and where wells should be drilled to provide the central Utah community of 1,500 with a geothermal municipal mu-nicipal heating system. In technical terms, the data is "dipole-dipole resistivity re-sistivity survey, ground magnetic and temperature gradient data". The data will be available for Inspection but not for distribution. Gooiliormal report released Nov. 18 The ninth in a series of geothermal progress reports re-ports will be released to the public on Nov. 18, 1977 at 11 a.m. by University of Utah scientists. It contains the first resource assessment data under a program to evaluate underground hot water as a possible heating - - - source for Monroe, Utah. Scientists indicate the test data from the Monroe Hot Springs -Red Hill Hot Springs area make it possible to identify locations which could be drilled to reach waters in the temperature range of 170 F. Dr. Stanley Ward, chair - m m m |