Milford News | 1932-01-21 | Page 4 | Huge Dam at Moon Lake to be Constructed by Gov't

HUGE DASI AT MOON LAKE TO BE CONSTRUCTED 1!Y GOV'T. After many years of investigation and preliminary work, sponsored principally by the Dry Gulch Irrigation Irriga-tion company, Duchesne county is to receive federal aid in constructing a huge dam at Moon Lake for the purpose of storing waters for irrigation. irriga-tion. The structure will be earth filled fill-ed and measures 1120 feet across, 570 feet at river, S4 feet wide at the spillway, and 2 0 feet wide at the top It will back up water to a depth of 5G feet. A spillway with a 20,000 second foot capacity is to be provided provid-ed to take care of unusually large runoff, which has in the past proved prov-ed disastrous to dams in the basin. The water storage created by the dam will be a little larger than one-third one-third the size of Strawberry reservoir. reser-voir. Moon Lake at the present time covers about 300 acres and this area ar-ea will be greatly enlarged with the construction of the dam. The, lake is located about 50 miles northwest of Vernal near Altonah. Vernal Express. Ex-press. 0