| Show TO BUILD YANKEE mm MEADOW RESER PLANS SENT FOR FOB STATE ENGINEERS APPROVAL COMMITTEE contemplates ORDERING MATERIAL THIS FALL DAM WILL COST 8 TO at a meeting of the yankee meadow reservoir committee a few days since at which plans and specifications for the proposed dam at the yankee meadow were considered very carefully the secretary was ordered to forward the plans to the state engineers office with instruct ions eions to hold them until information asked for in the letter of transmittal was received by the committee the blue prints and specifications were prepared by the late R S gardner after a very careful in investigation ires ti about a year ago and submitted to the committee together with estimates of the cost the survey showed that by building a 35 foot dam water could be held up until it would run over into the second left hand canyon and that the gross capacity of the basin created would be acre feet with a net capacity of acre feet it was also learned that by extending the dam to 4 42 2 feet in height and baisi raising ng the overflow over flow biow into the second left hand seven feet the basin could be enlarged to a gross capacity of 1145 acre feet with a net capacity of about acre feet it was first thought that a dam with a concrete or masonry core would be necessary and the engineers estimate of the cost of a 42 foot dam based on the cost of labor and material a year ago would be in round numbers about but preliminary excavations revealed the presence of clay which will be ideal for making a puddle core and the estimated cost for fora a 4 42 2 foot dam with that sort of core based on the same prices for labor and material was the cost of a 35 foot dam with a puddle core which if decided upon would eliminate the necessity for fora a dam at the overflow over flow into the second lefthand left hand was estimated at since those estimates were given however days wages for man and team have declined from frain to or about 25 per cent and there has probably been a corresponding decline inthe in the cost of material so that it is estimated that a 35 foot dam can be put in now for about the committees idea is to put in the 35 foot dam as soon as possible building at least a part of it this fall and then after a thorough trial another seven feet can be added at a later date if that is desired if parowan carowan city joins the fields in the project and pays according to the share of water it owns or one fourth of the cost it will require an assessment not to exceed on each of the 1867 acres of land drawing primary water in the three fields to build the 35 foot dam or if the city participate then the cost will be approximately 5 an acre for eich land owner to pay but it can probably be arranged so that much of that can be worked out by the farmers the available water for the reservoir was also measured by the engineer and he estimates that by storing it eight months there will be sufficient to fill tho the basin back of a 42 foot dam assuming that the estimates of the cost and the amount of acre feet of water which can be stored are correct and that it takes about three acre feet of water ea each ch season to irrigate an acre of land in this valley it will be seen from the figures given that for each 45 expended on the 35 foot dam sufficient water to irrigate irrigate another acre will be added to our supply to make it more concrete the man who is assessed on his ten acres of land to build that dam will get water for another acre and a fraction for that 50 while primary rights have sold within the last year for seven times that much the cost of the a cara water from a 42 foot dam would be even less per acre than that while it is not a big project it is well worth while especially when one takes into account the fact that the theist ost of the dam will practically all be expended at home and the additional value of the reservoir for a resort and a place for fish |
