Show Farmers Urged To 11 o Use se More ore Water a at Once Sevier Bridge Reservoir Is Filling Filling Filling Fill Fill- ing Rapidly a and d Is Approaching Approach Approach- ing foot aD-foot foot 80 Contour f Farmers under the lower Sevier River canal are asked bythe bythe by bythe the water companies to use more water at present and try to reduce the amount of water In the Sevier Bridge Dam The dam level stood at 79 feet on April 18 and is raising raising raising rais rais- ing at the rate of one tenth one tenth of a afoot afoot afoot foot a a. a day which will cause the dam to reach the SO foot 80 foot level and I then it must be released At present present present pres pres- ent about feet is running over the spillway The North Tract is using full capacity capacity capacity ca ca- ca- ca of their canals but the other other other oth oth- er comp companies nies are not using as much muchas as they could and it may be that 1000 or more feet may have to be leased from the dam about Sunday unless the companies use up more of the water Considerable water has gone down the old river channel to Swan Lake and Crafts Craft's Lake in fact about feet have been running quite steadily It may be that a much larger stream will have to be turned turned turned turn turn- ed down there more in the neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- of feet Delegations from the five irrigation irrigation irrigation tion companies met on Wednesday night to determine whether to al allow allow allow al- al low any more water to accumulate in the Sevier Bridge Reservoir or not They voted to allow the water to reach the foot SO-foot contour and release the same amount of water from the gates as is entering the reservoir from the spring run This overflow water may be considerable considerable considerable con con- and they still urge the farmers to use all the water they possibly can both to save the water water water wa wa- ter from going to waste and to re relieve relieve relieve re- re lieve the strains on the various res res- res- res |