Show o Conservation On The Local Scene Held over from from previous week Equipment Busy Dirt moving equipment is busy in the Manti and md Ephraim areas with pond construction and land leveling Bill Nay is building ponds on the West Vest mountain for Lee Barton Barton Barton Bar Bar- ton and Bruce Barton Junior Bown is working on pond building and spring development development devel devel- on the West Vest mountain for fer Eugene Carpenter James Jorgenson is leveling land for Ray C Cox X of Manti Mantl and Owen Gregerson is leveling land for the Kjar Bros also of Manti ManU Blue Meadows 1 Engineers Harold Brown and Glade Wilkes of Richfield ate aie at e in charge of topographic mapping of the proposed Blue Meadows dam damn site and surveying began this week Assisting with these surveys are Delmar Beck and acting as and chairmen are Avard Elden Elden Elden El- El den I 1 McIff c Iff Raymond Jensen of Sterling and Martell l Walker of Manti 1 North Sixmile and Sterling Irrigation Company officers will meet this week with the Utah Water Vater and Power Board and State Engineer to make plans for the deep core investigations investigations investigations on the Blue Meadows project New Canyon Ephraim Irrigation Company officers met this week with Tom Brothersen of to discuss relocation of the New Canyon Canyondam Canyondam Canyondam dam centerline center The new location of the centerline centerline cen- cen will strengthen the west abutment of the dam and will save approximately cubic yards of fill material dam willbe will willbe be closer to the borrow areas arens Mid and less stripping of the storage storage storage stor stor- age area will be needed Ephraim Irrigation Company will meet with Utah Water Vater and Power Board and the State Engineer to make arrangements for deep drilling of the foundation foundation tion Oon for the dam The design of these dams is based on the material found in the foundation under the dam West cst Field Ditch Lionel King and Delmar Beck Deck measured water losses in the West Field ditch last week They found the ditch lost approximately approximately approximately one half cubic foot of water between the railroad track and J Jennis ennis Allreds Allred's meadow meadow meadow mea mea- dow farm ManU Manti Irrigation And Reservoir Company Grant Dyreng tells me that their company plans on installation installation install install- of several hundred feet of pipe in the portion of the ditch system that became filled with mud from the flash flood last lust week Grant said that It cost the company about to have Dan Jorgensen of Mt Pleasant remove the mud with his backhoe |