Show MAY OFFER assistance TO PRIVATE WELL OWNERS assistance to well owners through out the state in making repairs to wasting wells may become possible through a project now approved should a condition be removed from the original contract restricting repairs to privately own ed wells state engineer T H hum said wednesday the announcement followed word from officials that a modified withdrawal of condition no 2 of the project contract may be given based on submission of a plan for operation of the repairs condition no 2 specifies that no portion of 0 federal funds allocated under the application shall be released for 0 operation to make repairs on ly owned wells even though a rigid well control program has been under way th khz past three years through cooperation of there are still many wells which cannot be controlled without major repairs mr humpherys P erys said waste in the state from underground sources has been i induced educed from acre feet annually to less than annually in the three years but even now the loss figured on a basis of reservoir storage costs amounts to three quarters of a million dollars annually he said it is estimated that repairs to 10 per cent of the wasting wells in the I 1 state would save approximately 60 percent of the wasting water areas in the state which would be allec attested ted by the program would include cache county logan and I 1 richmond underground basins box elder cider county brigham basin davis county north and south basins tooele thoele county erda basin salt lake county salt lake and murray basins utah county north and south basins millard county pah j vant basin iron county parowan carowan basin and sevier county richfield and Koo basins according to the plan the repairs would include pressure mud pumping for filling of openings washed around casings of wells the same to be sealed with heavy mud or cement driving of overs oversized laed casings where necessary and other technical methods adapted to various needs |