| Show UI UTAH AH WATER LANS Details of f Provo Projects Placed Be- Be Before Before Be Before fore Smoot I ISALT SALT LAKE May liny Tenta l-Tenta- 21 tIre U det details of o tho Weber provo Provo project and plans for tor the tho utilIzation utilization tion to a greater degree ot of o the wa- wa waters wa waters tei-s tei were dl cu at a at t the capitol c between A AP AP A Ap P Da 1 David l director of 0 the tho United States reclamation service D W Davis Da former governor ot of o Idaho ond now assistant of o tb the Interior and United United- State States Senator Smoot Other officials present Included l lW W It n Wallace chairman of the water II It 1 Caldwell Caidwell state engineer ene lID II 11 Crockett acting gO W M I Green engineer In charge charse of the th joint reclamation and state ines- ines in Utah T 1 I L Allen Alien of Coalville an and l R It R B Lyman and J R It Mil Murdoch Murdock of the water storage stor life age commission of the Weber end of o the tho been announce announced before and the cost has been ten ten- ten ten el estimated uti mated at 11 This Includes the construction of a aresen resen reservoir at nt the tho Magpie M site on Ogden Ogder rl river riser er with a 3 masonry dam dani OO feet teft tot by 00 feet wide sto-rl sto storing J n acre e feet a reser- reser reser or o 0 r at the th Echo canyon nyon etto of feet high and 1200 feet long of an n earth till flit storing 74 14 74 acre feet a reservoir at Chalk creel creek of or feet high of o an nn earth fill storing acro feet a 11 fourth reservoir at Lost Creek Creel feet teet In heIght of an earth fIll till to store acre feet r D The project also Includes the re- re re removal moval mo of o the railroad tracks at Echo the construction of a high highline highline highline line canal the enlargement of ot toe the h Da Dai n l and Weber county canal and allo s for tor construction of laterals Th Weber end has hILS progressed to such inch a point that it was be- be be believed lle Cd the next step In matins mating the project the th waters aters ot which would be used in Morgan Weber and Davis DaYis counties principally pally pall Is the tho forming of organizations of the land owners 01 ners who will willbe willbe willbe be Tills This work was as left up to local officials and a score of meetings was promised In the near future at which the plans would be tw presented and organization lion tion of Irrigation districts urged Engineer Green told the th party today of ot the details of ot his find find- findings tind legs ings on the Utah Provo Lake-Provo ani Tooele valley ends of ot the th 10 inesti- inesti gation The details of his bis scheme In the rough were released but all as IlS to costs and Individual individual ual ual chat were wIthheld Doth Utah and Salt Lake counties are re chiefly Interested In lowering the water surface of the lake lak and the Jordan river rl which for the past two ear ean Green declared had exceeded the compromise level which had been agreed to years previously He placed tho the total acreage which would be benefited from the th Utah Lake Lak phase at about acres lores In Utah county and possibly an equal acreage In Salt Lake alley aliey vr n LIKE LAKE PLAN The Utah Lake Lae plan features t the Increase the capacity of the Jordan river to 1800 1100 second feet of water ater ater at It the Narrow a s to lower the tho lake lak level leHI to the tho compromise Ie el thus giving Utah county a stated maximum high water mark markon markon markon on which the work of draining thousands of acres of land adjacent adjacent ent to the lake now under water ater part of the th year can be he under under- undertaken undertaken taken laken Use the Utah lake from frona the compromise level to a level se seen seven en feet less as a 0 storage resen Construct a power station on Diamond creek at the tho outlet of the Strawberry reservoir for de- de de de of or horsepower In Inthe Inthe Inthe the summer hummer season eason with which to pump water tor for reclaiming about acres In the Provo bay for draining about acres near Lohl Lehi and for raising water to te jati irrl-jati gat 14 acres under the Mos Mos- MosIda Mos Ida Ida Jda project CIL flY CANALS Carry water by gravity canals along aloni the eastern edge ot or the OQuirrh range ranee for acres m in valley The Provo r river riser er plan would contemplate the building of ot the Deer Creek reservoir reser on which UI tJ Utah Power s S Light now has a large y water ater riling filing for develop development ment of power purposes By Tea Tea- rea reason eon son of this filing the development be bo somewhat hindered and there would bo ho left lert but acre feet ot of the tho 1 acre feet capacity of this reservoir which would be available This would be augmented by an additional 50 acre feet to be bo diverted from the Weber river headquarters headquarter ter at Oakly providing pro iou acre feet storage on tb Provo The Utah lake lak pl n contemplates benefIting acres in Sal Sait Lake county largely drainage ramage The plan b based on the assumption that Salt Lake will e all of ot the minimum flow of the several canyon streams run run- running run nine nin ning Into toto the valley |
