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Show Senator Watkins Reveals Watershed Plan j Planning of the Coal Creek watershed in Cedar Canyon is 30 complete according to a report issued by the office of Senator Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) (R-Utah) this week. In issuing the statement the senator Indicated that two watershed wa-tershed flood prevention projects pro-jects In Utah should be completed com-pleted during 1957. In addition to the Coal Creek project he listed list-ed the $108,000 American Fork watershed on Dry Creek for com pletion. At Coal Creek the project was ! bring expedited with a hope for j completion by early October, according ac-cording to D. A. Williams, Soil (Conservation Service admlnistra-jtor. admlnistra-jtor. Sponsors of the project are the Iron County SCD, Iron County Water Users Board, Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, Cedar .City Water Board and Coal Creek I Irrigation Company. supwrted by the Cedar Livestock Association Associa-tion and the Escalante Valley Cattle Association. The project' acreage breakdown is: Federal 29.500, state 3,500. private 45,000 acres. Work on the American Fork watershed project Is now 80 complete and the proposal should be ready for submission to Congress in early May, Mr. Williams informed Senator Watkins. Wat-kins. Planning work also was Initiated Init-iated recently on a northern Utah project on the North Fork, of Ogden River. Construction is proceeding on the 15,296 acre Mill Canyon-Sage Flat watershed project east of Glen wood in Sevier County. Thi project is allocated $115,495 Ira Federal funds and will be completed com-pleted in 1961, Sen. Watkins was; advised. |
