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Show -J " 'mm. This photo shows the one acre waxed runoff "apron" on the left and the 80,000 gallon storage tank to the right. This tank is located on the Beaver Dam Slope in southwestern Washington County. BLM Improves Hot Desert Range paraffin wax to allow rain water to drain into the storage tank. "We believe that these catchments and the springs and wells we're developing will do a lot to improve livestock distribuition and solve watering prolbems in the county," said Rowley. Another phase of this year's range improvement work in the Hot Desert area was completed last week by the Bureau of Land Management. Five water catchments and storage tanks have been installed in several areas throughout Washington County. These, and many other range improvement projects, are part of the implementation of the Hot Desert Grazing Environmental En-vironmental Impact Statement. Frank Rowley, BLM Dixie Resource Area Manager, said that the water storage projects completed this year cost about $38,000. A total of some $230,000 will be spent in Washington County this year on range projects as a result of the Hot Desert EIS. The storage tanks have a capacity of 80,000 gallons each and total 400,000 gallons of water for area livestock and wildlife. Each tank will have a pipeline to carry water to troughs in the area. Water catchments consist of an "apron", concrete and steel storage tank and a series of water troughs. The water catchment cat-chment apron is an area from three-quarters to one acre in size that is cleared of veeetation then covered with Water for new BLM installed catchments is collected by clearing a large "Apron" of all vegetation then spraying the area with a coat of wax. |