Show APPLICATION FOR NAVAJO NA LAKE WATER MADE DY BY I ST. ST GEORGE MAN Development of or Navajo Lake is 1 isa a storage reservoir to supply supplemental sup supplemental f irrigation for acres of farm land In hi Washington county coun- coun j coun-j I ty is proposed in an application on file Ill In the State Engineers Engineer's office The applicant is John H H. of St St. George who has made application ap ape ap- ap to appropriate 10 second te feet t and acre feet of water from Navajo Lake N North rth Fork of ot the Virgin river and the Virgin I river in Kane ant and Washington counties j The notice of or the application is isnow Isi now running in the the Washington 1st County News and any protests against the granting of the application Lion tion must be on file llIe in the State Engineers office within days after completion of 0 publication which Is Js February According to the application It is proposed to construct a dam across Navajo lake from north to south the center of or the dam being S. S 80 deg E. E ft from the NW corner comer Sec See 12 twp 38 S S. S R n 9 W we presume to be approximately approximately the same location as the present dyke constructed by the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce and local sportsmen The dam would thus make of or the west portion portion por pore tion of the lake a reservoir for forthe forthe the storage of Inflow there there- j to If the application Is granted the water wU be stored throughout i the year released and allowed to flow now into the eastern portion of ot I the lake from which It will drain naturally through the sinks SU supposedly supposedly sup sup- into a tunnel tributary to I the North fork rork of the Virgin river I IA A bulkhead and control works will be constructed at the mouth of or this tunnel to control if I practicable the discharge through the sinks thus causing the eastern portion of or Navajo lake take to serve also as a regulating and storage reservoir The MOO acre feet teet of ot water applied applied ap plied for or would if It the application application tion is granted be stored in whole In the west portion of 0 the lake or orIf orIf orif If practicable part in the east cast portion The impounded waters would be released as needed and 1 allowed to flow now into the natural of 0 the Virgin river from rom which It would be diverted into existing canals at points as follows 1 The Hurricane I canal 2 The La cana cans and 3 The St. St George and Washington canal the biggest portion portion por pore I tion going into the later I Just w what at effect the granting of or f j I this application will have on existing ex ex- ex 1 Istl rights has not yet b been tn determined de de- by Interested local peo pie The state r recently filed on acre feet of 0 water In the lake and it Is understood that application tion was grant granted d. d It Is also un understood under understood er stood that the waters of or North NorthFork NorthFork NorthFork I Fork have been been allocated It was planned by b the Forest Service to raise the present dyke I in the lake and further protect the i level of ot the lake but if 11 the water Is to to be be used by a private Irrigation I company the forest service could not spend money in developing the lake I |