| Show Wafer History Davis County Water P sers Association is the that started action in 45 and toward total i of the Weber Such action involved users of Wasatch RESULTED m the first water development in the United States project that considered recreation and J no group interested in a well-documented his-ry be written of that water and what it meant to development if this SO STATED Joseph W. at a meeting of the association's leaders held recently in the Davis County Courthouse at The meeting was called to hear a progress report from DeLore Nichols of Farmington concerning the recent awarding of a grant of by the Weber-Davis Counties Municipal Water Development Association to the history department of Weber State College to search write and publish the history of the development of the Weber River system water resources and its impact on the NICHOLS represented the Davis County Water Users Association as a member of the Weber River History Advisory It was established by trustees of the Weber River Historical Fund to give counsel and help in obtaining the necessary historical information and in its NICHOLS noted that has had a persistent interest in the development of the water that has made possible the growth of industries and agriculture in the As Utah State University Extension agent for Davis County during the drouth of 1934 and on through the water-development years of the and early he has been instrumental in persuading the water users of Davis County to organize and focus their efforts on getting more water for the area and putting the water they had to best JOHNSON pointed out that at the outset the idea of building water storage and transporting facilities in order to obtain better use of the water had to be sold to f many agricultural users and leaders of municipalities and Selling the idea of comprehensive water development required much missionary work of personally contacting the people of the MEMBERS of the Davis County Water Users Association spent thousands of hours in making those people who were most critical eventually became some of the strongest supporters of the water AS ONE of the sponsoring water groups of northern the Davis County Water Users Association commended the agreement made with Weber State College to prepare and publish the water development Darrell Extension agent for Davis County and secretary of the county Water Users invited the group to attend a state workshop for water users at Utah State University in Logan Janu JOHNSON said the Water Users Association a nual meeting will be held that He urged water users in the county and area to support the as-i and take a Vital interest in the water issues that now critically concern |
