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Show The Timeslndependent, Thursday, March 6, 1980 Multi-stag- e (Cont. from Page Al) cording to a Utah Water Project aimed at solving future problems from the tunnel to the reservoir is still in the Division of Water design stage and is expec- ted to cost about $50,000. Resources report. Later, it became ap- - To replenish water taken parent that the reservoir from the south fork, wells could be separated from are being developed near the system, the old powerhouse dam thereby lowering the cost further downstream. One of the project con- - well will return water to siderably while preser- - Mill Creek while the other ving the native beauty of will be used to supply to water the land from which water culinary the would be tapped. existing augment Under chairmanship of supply of Moab City. The K. E. McDougald, the price for these two wells Grand County Water should run about $50,000, Conservancy District and drilling should be had plans drawn for a complete by March 6, and dam to be cording to contractor located at the upper end Dutch Zimmerman, In an interview with the of Spanish Valley with water being diverted from Water Conservancy e the south fork of Mill Districts two Bretzke Dave Creek through a tunnel employees, which was initially begun and Beulah Croasmun, by Horace Sheley in 1933. secretary, Bretzke stateds Funding of $3.7 million that the WCD has a inreceived by the tract ; to provide n district from the Utah creasingly yearly of Water ts of water to Moab. By Resources, part of the $25 1985, Moab should be million bond issue ap- - receiving 1000 acre feet of proved by the State culinary water per year. Bids Legislature in 1978. Bretzke went on to . , flood-contr- Cl prw X&58$!$ ol S: ;j- - full-tim- con-wa- amoun-Divisio- P state that with these contractors began work developments, plus trans- The dam and the 2750 reser- - mission lines, pumphouse The land must be shaped, moistened, that the present road into the constructon site presents a hazard to site-see- on account of rs trucks and a one million gallon said that a new road will steei water tank to be be finished in a week or fast-movin- g capacity voir are being constnicted located in Spanish Valley, two to allow interested Constructionof this output should be persons to drive up to a Salt Lake City for the bid satisfactorily met by that hill on the north side of if not before. date, the dam to view work-in- millioxi. The 650-foBretzke added that progress. Sheley Tunnel is being aiong these with if everything goes as ad- be will enPvpfonmn? rT developments planned, the new dam, ditional agreements with reservoir and diversion fir acre-fo- ot packed with clay, layered with gravel and tested before any water can be stored in the Spanish Valley Reservoir unit of the Mill Creek Water Project, Times lndependent Photo Feature ot InsmST A ."viS he"ibTnder"onracTfo"r the diversion structure on the south fork of Mill Creek with the bid of $179,000. The pipeline La"L0"T,.9beMdr f 5551 inauri8 lre' SiXhX S3SSS? ,bS: e' sident engineer for Creek Project, Brad Pricef expiained geptfmber- - the of adequate, tlpon wafor fn H fin lr Viv late Fall of this year and for irrigation by Spring of by Peter Dustrud nextyear.. Resident engineer Brad Price explaining the technical aspects of the Workers laying pipe to carry water from the diversion Mill Creek. In an arid land nothing is as Important to the survival of the inhabitants as water. multi-millio- n dollar water project. structure to Sheley Tunnel. Dutch Zimmerman and crew are drilling the well near the old Powerhouse Dam. Here, Zimmerman, on the left, and his assistant Steve Sheppard, prepare to repair drilling cable. |