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Show BIG RECLAMATION 1 PROJECT PLANKED Preliminary estimates, based upon repots re-pots compiled by the United States geological survey, show the flow of the G -een river as 5,940,000 acre feet and t ;e Grand river as. 6,400,000 . for the year, up.to November 1. On the Grand riv3r it is estimated that 47,100 acres csuld be reclaimed in Utah through the construction of the proposed Colorado river project. On the Green river the acreage that would be reclaimed is 455,000 acres and the project also would serve 108,500 in Utah along the Colorado below the junction of the Grand and the Green rivers. ; The reclamation service, according to E. A. Porter, district engineer of the geological survey is making surveys to determine what construction work would be be required. The plans contemplate the construction of a reservoir at Bridgeport, Utah, on Green river, northeast of Vernal, which would store 3,000,000 acre feet of water. |