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Show Early Action Seen on Deer Creek Project W. R. Wallace, chairman of the Utah Water Storage Commission, spoke to approximately 1,000 Utah county citizens at a mass meeting Monday evening in the Provo high school. He stated, "We have committees com-mittees working on every phase of the Deer Creek project and if you have a spirit of cooperation, I am confident that before long we will have our plans ready to submit to Washington." The meeting was held under the auspices of the program pro-gram committee of the Provo Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. The immense amount of details and planning that must be worked out on such a project before actual construction can begin was pointed out by Mr. Wallace, who said, "We are trying to accomplish things on a larger project in six months that took three years to do on the Echo Dam. However I am sure that we can do it, as we must hurry the project in every way possible as the money for Deer Creek was originally origin-ally provided to make work, and if delay is too great before the dam (begins, the money will be taken elsewhere." Some of the biggest problems that must be overcome at present are the removal of the railroad tracks and highway through Provo canyon, can-yon, the speaker declared, but expressed ex-pressed the hope that they would be ironed out in the shortest possible possi-ble time, "Under no circumstances will the dam interfere with any present water right," Mr. Wallace declared. E. O. Larson, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation engineer, assigned to the Deer Creek project, spoke briefly brief-ly on technical details of .the dam and the dyking of Utah Lake. He stated that plans for dyking the lake already had been sent to the Denver reclamation office for consideration. con-sideration. "If it is possible we hope to dyke Utah Lake this year," Mi-. Larson said. Elmer A. Jacobs, engineer manager man-ager of the Water Users' committee of the project, and J. W. Gillman, Utah county commissioner and a member of the Utah Water Storage commission, also spoke briefly on features of the project. Mr. Jacobs said the dimensions of the dam when finished would be 195 feet high, with the water level rising to the 175 foot level. The dam would extend 860 feet across the canyon and would have a capacity of 145,-000 145,-000 acre-feet, he declared. During the latter part of the meeting an open discussion on various var-ious problems was held, with questions ques-tions by the citizens being answered by Mr. Wallace and Mr. Larson. The project would prove of immense im-mense benefit to Utah county especially, es-pecially, as well as the entire state. |