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Show Irrigation Co. states worries A letter was penned by the board of the Coal Creek Irrigation Company this week advising parties who have built in the flood channel of the Cedar Valley area the irrigation company does not have the facilities to accomodate ac-comodate a massive spring runoff. "The irrigation company has no alternative but to allow the water to take the natural course which it has always taken down the flood channels," chan-nels," the letter signed by President Craig Jones and Company Vice-President Vice-President Brent Hunter, said. The company will take such precautions as may be prudent to divert the streams whereever possible and to maintain its irrigation facilities including in-cluding ditches and canals in as good of condition to minimize expected flooding, it was stated. The leter states the irrigation company has noted "with some concern" developments located west and north of the Cedar City Municipal Airport. "It appears the subdivisions may have been developed in old flood channels and planes and that 'there are homes located in the areas which have customarily been covered with water in years of high runoff," Jones stated in the letter. Persons occupying property along the old flood channel and flood plane are advised, the letter added, to take independent action as they deem prudent to insure their loss is minimized in ther the event their is flooding this spring. "All persons in the Cedar City and Cedar Valley area are cautioned not to tamper, change or alter any irrigation headgates or other water diversion facilities at any time and particularly during the possible flood period," the letter states. The Coal Creek Irrigation Company, Com-pany, Jones noted, was organized in the 1920's and has customarily cleaned channels and ditches to ac-comdate ac-comdate runoff. The runoff this spring could surpass the 1973 runoff, the letter warns, when the channels and ditches were not sufficient to handle the water. concern over water J |