Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-27 | Page 8 | Would Rebuild Hatchtown Dam

oo WOULD REBUILD HATCHTOWN DAM Formal report on the Hatchtown dam break, recommending that the legislature be asked to appropriate $100 000 to rebuild the reservoir dam at another site and that $49.309. SO be appropriated lu addition to reimburse settlers for damages suffered b the break and the flood that followed, was filed with the governor yesterday by the state land board. The board suggests that the appropriations appro-priations be made in the form of a loan to the board with the Idea that the state shall be reimbursed from the reservoir fund through the sale of land5 under the project A detailed list of the damages suffered suf-fered by each settler is Included in the report, together with the amounts that should be paid by the state to each settler. It is remarked that two sites below thp old site have been examined h. the board and Its experts and found to be safer than the old one, though the cot of construction would be more than for the dam that went out and the amount of water impounded would be a little less. The dam must be rebuilt, however, if the state is to hold on to its valuable storage water rights in the Sevier river. It is reported that the exact cause of ihe break is not yet known and may never be known Many theories, the-ories, plausible enough, have been advanced, ad-vanced, but no conclusive proof exists ex-ists Seepage water from irrigated lands above the dam may have been responsible, it is said. oo