Show 279 place there vas no agency in the state that was able to handle such a project To rectify this weakness promoters of the project succeeded in getting a bill through the state legislature creating the Breat Basin Authority Board with the right to institute and manage the whole diking project Some of the other problems to The bill vas passed in 1935 be solved included: the height width material etc for dikes whether there would be sufficient water reaching the lake after completion of various water storage projects at Hyrum Pine Vi ew and Deer Creek costs and possible returns feasibility of construction effect of wave action on dikes use to be made of the fresh water lake once it was completed One of the most common questions concerning the proposed diking projects is: what are the advantages of such a fresh water lake? Enthusiastic supporters of diking schemes point out several important advantages that they claim would soon more than pay for the costs of construction In the first place there would be available a large fresh water lake that could be used for industrial purposes power plants and factories could be built along the now desolate shores The 12500(1 acre feet of water that would normally flow over the spillways could be used for this purpose and for irrigation A pumping plant has been in operation for many years pumping of the State of Utah regular session of Legislature 1935 241 3 Laws Twenty-Fir- st |