Show ECHO RESERVOIR REACHES YEARS HIGHEST LEVEL the echo reservoir contains more water at the present time and is at a higher leval than it has ever reached before approximately acre feet Is now impounded in the dam last year behind a coffer dam about acre feet Is the most that was in the reservoir at one time the completed reservoir has a capacity of acre feet an average of acre feet a day Is being impounded and it is expected that another acre feet will be stored behind the dam before the present season is over although heavy rains may increase that amount present storage however is in ad vance of any flood waters that will come down this year and is made possible by the tact fact that the utah power light company and other users have permitted the closing of the gates which are letting through only enough water to preserve the fish life in the stream irrigators Irrl gators however will begin to draw on the river in the near future unless our wet weather continues |