Show A He ir Ae 7 completed under project at upper UPP er dam work has been completed of the new hangate had gate at the diversion dam with the final cleaning up being done now the he adgate went out last year and a temporary gate put in this lasted a short time and then almost went out again there was considerable anxiety caused here to the farmers as the loss of the wa ter from that dam and the resultant inability to divert water would cause considerable hardship during that time lk there was no large loss of water last year but it was seen that a new sate gate was necessary tor for the diversion I 1 of water this year A federal pro jcck was secured to rebuild the gate aad and 4 was spent on rebuilding the gates the gate has been rebuilt in a very sturdy fashion footing sun ning six teet feet below the canal bed ot of heavily re reinforced in forced concrete with flanges running well nell into athe out side walls will tend to make it very secure new heavy timber has been used and from the looks of it there will no danger of the gate going out A new project Is in line to have the dam built up so that a larger body of water can be impounded as the dam at present holds only 3 cre ere feet they intend to bring this capacity up to about double that tig fig ure no definite decision has been reached on this latter matter |