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Show Storage Water Stream Quits For Season Now that Deer Creek Reservoir contains more than a two-years' storage supply and the high water run-off on the Weber River has subsided, diversion of Weber River water through the Weber-Provo Diversion Canal will be discontinued within the next few days and final concrete lining of the canal will be started, start-ed, according to E. O. Larson, Region 4 director. Scheduled for completion by November 1, 1946, placing of the concrete lining will wind up construction con-struction work on the canal, with the exception of clay lining some sections, Mr. Larson said. Preliminary work is already started in preparation for the concrete placing, and actual construction con-struction is expected to be underway under-way in the near future. Some 4,400 feet of the nine-mile long canal will be lined, including 600 feet in the vicinity of Kamas and 3,800 feet at the lower end of the canal before it joins with the Provo River. Concrete was placed plac-ed two years ago on an additional addition-al 1,800 feet of the canal in the vicinity of Kamas and the Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald drop. Deer Creek Reservoir, filled to j its 150,000 acre-foot capacity, spilled Wednesday for the first time in its five years of use. It is expected to be still better than half full when the irrigation season closes this summer and will carry the remaining storage over into the next year, as the main units of the Provo River Project distribution system, including in-cluding the Salt Lake aqueduct1 and the Provo Reservoir canal, are not yet completed. On completion, the project will provide supplemental Irrigation for 95,000 acres of fertile lands now inadequately served, and, in addition will provide domestic and Industrial water supplies for Salt Lake City, Provo, and other urban areas. |
