| Show WATER STORAGE ON AND PROVO Intense interest centers in the in connection with the of government water promoting I i storage projects on OIl the Weber and Provo rivers On Saturday the advocates of the tho Dates Bates reservoir site which is plan plan- planned planned ned to store acre feet of water to bo be diverted from the We- We Weber We Weber ber river made mado a 1 trip of ol OO miles Iby I by automobiles and not only con considered the feasibility and cost ot or the tho Provo projects but entered the Weber Weber watershed and offered su sug I A statement of ot the real purpose of the investigation is disclosed In Inthe inthe Inthe the follo following Ing from Irom one of o the Salt Lake papers About an hour was as spent at the nales reservoir abo abose aboe abo e the intake of the post 10 po ei er plant pipe line Here It was found that the rock has already been tested by test pits at the proposed damsite add pronounced suitable for tor such a purpose It was WItS stated that engl engi engineering estimates show that a 1 dam high sigh enough to Impound water vater to toa toa toa a depth of ot feet above the river riverbed bell bed would Impound imp und acre feet ol ot water eater ater at a cost of about 35 an foot acre With the water eater ater lev level at feet about 8 1000 feet acre acre could be Impounded In n some years the runoff of ot the Provo n riser n er basin above this site cite would oud be more than ample to store such a supply of water In others It might be advisable to obtain water hater ater from front the Weber headwaters which I coul be done by construction of ot a 1 canal slightly more than eight miles Ion long across llamas Kamas amas nat Hat Filings have been made at Oak Oak Oak-Ie Ie Ic it was staB as stated by the Utah Con Conservation company for tor water from the Weber river drainage to be transferred to the Provo river drainage W R Wallace now of ot the Utah water storage commission is an active member of that company The canal would also Interrupt Beaver and Shingle creek reek and smaller tributaries fit f logs ings on whose waters are now In Inthe inthe Inthe the hands of ot the water storage commission It was argued that farmers lanners of ot the Weber river drain drain- drainage drainage age have several other available of ot water supply to replace that so BO necessary on the Provo Storage of ol surplus waters Ion on the Weber and Ogden pump pump- Sing pump ng from lower stretches of o the Weber extension of ot the tho Hammond canal ganal from Bear river or pumping from Bear Dear river are aro all ail suggested iThe Echo site Eite on the Weber river below below was next Inspect Inspect- Inspected ed sd following which the itinerary continued down Weber canyon to the Lost Creek site A saddle In Inith dividing wall wail between the We We- We ber her er and Lost creek basins suggests the possibility of ot taking Weber river surplus s out near Echo and transferring It to the Lost creek Iside over this saddle In Lost 1 creek ha a large reservoir might thus be with Weber nver river water Pos of ot a at the mouth lor of the Lost Creek canyon are to tobe Ibe be Investigated Casually observed Ithe the site eite appears to offer otter a rather tong long base bas for tor a a dam but the walls are precipitous and the top of o the darn dam would apparently not be much longer than the base It ft mIght be well for tor thoo thole tho e who are the tho Provo Prove river pro pro- pro pro-I projects projects to concentrate on their own reservoir sites Bites and let the th water users along the Weber watershed work out their problems The figures given as to the the cost costo of o the fhe Bates sates reservoir are ax- ax ex extremely low tow Instead of ot 35 the are 50 an toot acre At present the water waler users on the Weber are In favor of ot the Etho projects and are Ilot not disposed to toha toha ha base e the promoters of o the Provo river project determine for or them the question as to availability of the different proposed |
