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Show Tour Is Made of Few of Reservoir Projects of CCC 1 In company with 1.. C. Koch, I suiH'rinteudent of C C 0 division of ! grazing camp 35, the editor of The ! News last Monday afternoon made a tour of some of the water development de-velopment work projected by the division of grazing and completed !by enrollecs of the Milford CCC camp under the direction of Superintendent Super-intendent Koch and his assistants. The West Point reservoir, 4'2 j miles 'West of town and just off highway 21, has a dam about 500 feet long and Hi feet high. It is an earth dam with puddled clay core and rock facinsr w-ith a very efficient looking spillway. Its capacity ca-pacity is 9 acre feet and it has about six feet of water in it at this time, the only reservoir of those visited Monday to have been in line to catch the runoff from summer sum-mer storms we have had thus far. This reservoir was constructed during the winter when it was not profitable to work the boys at any great distance from camp. Translated, Trans-lated, into gallons, the capacity of this reservoir is over 3,000,000 gallons gal-lons of stored water. The Laho reservoir, some 12 miles south of town and Just off the railroad right-of-way, has a capacity of 750,000 gallons and is of solid clay formation. Construction Construc-tion of this reservoir was hindered considerably by the closeness of underground water. Another project, pro-ject, known as the 17-Mile reservoir, reser-voir, was not visited at this time but is of about the same capacity as this one at the old Laho crossing. cross-ing. An attempt was made to develop underground water at Dead Horse point, 20 miles southwest of Milford, Mil-ford, but the driller found only one very small strata of water gravel and the well was abandoned. In its place, however, a reservoir with 15 acre feet capacity has been created and the water needs of this most important area will be adequately-taken adequately-taken care of. This dam, just finished fin-ished about a week, is 400 feet long. IS feet high and has a pub-died pub-died clay core and rock face, approximately ap-proximately 500 truck loads of rock having been hauled from near the top of a hill about a mile distant dist-ant to face this dam and construct the spillway. The Brimstone reservoir, near the old Brimstone sulphur mine at the head of Wah Wah valley, is of the excavated type and a pretty-piece pretty-piece of work. The bottom of this reservoir is only 61 feet below the ground level but the dirt excavated has been so used as a sort of dike that food waters originating over a large drainage area will first enter this reservoir and, with it filled, the surplus may pass on down the valley without going through the reservoir, as is usually the case. This development has a capacity of about a million gallons. gal-lons. The Sand Lake Reservoir, located lo-cated between the old Pioche road and the railroad tracks and about 12 miles south of town, was completed com-pleted in May and is now full of water. Though constructed entirely entire-ly by hand labor, it has a capacity of 30 acre feet and has been formed form-ed by construction of a dike at each end of a natural basin with (Continued on last page) I ! Tour Is Made (Continued from first page) a 700 foot diversion channel to cany water from the main flood water wash to this natural basin. One of the most noticeable u-a-ti res about most of these impounding impound-ing structures is the rock used in facing the dam and constructing . the spillways. In ,-onie instances ' the first question that arises is "Where did they get the rock?" j The answer was that much of it ! came from considerable distances, j But this has not been permitted to i lessen their use, apparently, ar( i every structure is a credit to Mr j Koch and the men and boys who j have worked with him. |