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Show Starvation Complex Nearly Half Completed During 1 968 Nearly half of the Central Utah Project's $20 million Starvation Complex was completed com-pleted during 1968, according to Lynn S. Dfedlow, general manager of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, sponsor of the project. By the year's end, Mr. Ludlow Lud-low said, the complex of dams and tunnels and other work near the eastern Utah town of Duchesne will be approximately approxi-mately 70 per cent complete. About 42 per cent of the construction con-struction progress was made this year. The work is being done by private contractors under the supervision of the U.S. Bureau Bur-eau of Reclamation. The complex includes the Starvation Dam, which is now about 78 per cent finished, the Starvation Tunnel and Knight Diversion Dam, both of which were completed this year, and the relocation of U.S. Highway High-way 40 in the Duchesne area, which is now about two-thirds finished. In addition to the Starvation Starva-tion Complex progress, Mr. Ludlow said, the work has started on the Water Hollow Tunnel of the Strawberry Complex to the west. The 4.1 mile tunnel will divert water into the Strawberry Reservoir It is about 15 per cent complete com-plete and drilling will continue con-tinue through the winter while much of the outside work on both complexes will be delayed delay-ed until spring because of the weather. The Water Hollow Tunnel is being drilled by a mechanical mechan-ical "mole" similar to the one used on the Starvation Tunnel earlier this year. Water stored by the Starvation Starva-tion Complex will be used to supplement the presently inadequate in-adequate irrigation supplies in the Duchesne River area, and to replace some water now used in that area that will be diverted via the Strawberry Aquduct to the Bonneville Basin. Benefits will also be provided at the reservoir near Duchesne for outdoor recreation, recrea-tion, fish and wildlife conservation, conser-vation, and flood control. The Strawberry Complex consists of features required to collect flows of several tributaries tri-butaries to the Duchesne River Riv-er and convey the water to the Strawberry Reservoir, which will be enlarged. |