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Show Value of Reservoir Reser-voir Water Shown A caravan of northern Utah county coun-ty and southern Salt Lake county citizens visited the site of the proposed pro-posed Deer Creek reservoir and the now operating Echo canyon project proj-ect Sunday with a view to securing information to better know what the Deer Creek project will mean to this section. The group traveled by auto caravan cara-van from Provo to the Echo project via Provo canyon, the Kamas valley and Coalville. They were met at Coalville by William R. Wallace, Salt Lake City, chairman of the state water storage commission, who accompanied ac-companied them on an inspection of the Echo dam and project. Elmer Jacobs, Provo, engineer and Deer Creek project manager, and J. W. Gillman, Orem, member of the state water storage commission, were the authorities who explained details of both projects to the group. The tour was under direction of Mark Anderson, chairman of the Provo chamber of commerce Deer Creek committee. Two probable sites of the Deer Creek dam were the first stops, one about one -half mile below Wildwood report and the other about one-third of a mile above it. Here physical details of the dam were explained. It will be 195 feet from the bed of the river in height, speakers said, and embedded about 50 feet below the river bed level. Its length will be about 800 feet. The capacity of the reservoir it will create will be 160,000 acre feet, creating a lake of about 2800 acres or four and one-half one-half square miles, reaching up to the lower limits of Charleston, about 10 miles from the dam. The sight at the Echo dam where a great stream of stored water is pouring forth onto the farms when most of our canyon streams are beginning be-ginning to fail "brought home" to the group the value of stored water which can be drawn on when needed. o |