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Show Weather Halts Construction Work on Newton Dam Weather conditions have halted ( construction work at the Newton dam in western Cache county, I. Donald Jermain, construction engineer en-gineer for the project, reported today, to-day, but work will resume later this spring. Incidental work may get underway under-way late in March or early April, depending upon weather conditions but the main projects remaining for completion of the dam will ! get underway in May. Crews have completed concrete work scheduled for this season and have placed rock on completed com-pleted portions of the big earth-fill earth-fill dam and have built up a , stockpile of rock which may be adequate to complete the rip-rap facing on the dam, he said. Some rocks may have to be hauled next fall. Concrete work has been completed com-pleted in the outlet works structure, besides completion of the rock stripping projects. I Main project for the coming ' season will be construction of the main earth-fill across the channel of Clarkston creek. The entire dam will require 365,000 cubic yards of earth, 128,000 yards of which is in place now. The laying of 3520 cubic yards of rock, in-eluding in-eluding the 9600 yards now placed will be required for the finished dam. Other construction scheduled for the coming season includes building build-ing of two concrete pipe siphons and two canals totaling 4000 feet in length from the dam to irrigated irri-gated areas. Undershoot drainage structures must be placed under the canals on each side of Clarkston Clark-ston creek. The pipe siphons and control tower will account for a large share of the 9000 cubic yards of concrete required for the project, ' f ' of which 750 yards now are placed. The completed dam, which will be used for water storage next winter, will provide water to irrigate ir-rigate about 2500 acres, including an estimated 500 acres of new land to be brought under cultivation. culti-vation. When completed, the waters wat-ers of the dam will almost completely com-pletely submerge the old pioneer irrigation dam about two miles above the new project |