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Show U. S. Bureau Asks Bids On Canal Widening E. O. Larson, construction engineer, en-gineer, asked for bids Saturday for the enlarging of the Murdock canal running north from Provo canyon to bring Deer Creek water to this area. The first unit includes the construction of three concrete siphons, one concrete flume, and two or three minor concrete structures. The concrete siphons will have an inside diameter of 8 feet and an aggregate length of 7,000 feet. The principal items of work and the estimated quantities involved are as follows: 82,000 cubic yards of common excavation; 3,000 cubic yards of rock excavation; excava-tion; 10,500 cubic yards of excavation exca-vation in changing the channel of the river; 6,000 cubic yards of compacted embankment; 63,000 cubic yards of backfill; the placing plac-ing of 7,600 cubic yards of concrete con-crete in structures; and the placing plac-ing of 1,900,000 pounds of reinforcement rein-forcement steel. The bids are to be opened at 10 a. m. on March 15, 1944, in the Provo office of the Bureau of Reclamation. The successful contractor will have 30 days in which to start work and 300 calendar days in which to complete all of the work in the contract. The going ahead with construction con-struction of the Provo Reservoir canal was recently approved by the war production board, as a result of the work being recommended recom-mended by the war food administration admin-istration as an aid in the war food program. A direct allocation alloca-tion of steel for the construction of the concrete structures was made by the war production board at the time a priority was granted. The enlargement of the Provo Reservoir canal is a part of the Provo river project. The present canal, which has a capacity of about 200 second feet, is too small to serve the lands which are purchasing storage water from the Deer Creek reservoir. With the work authorized by the war production board the capacity capa-city will be tentatively increased to about 350 second feet; and when all the work on the enlargement en-largement is completed, the canal ca-nal will have a capacity of 550 second feet. The latter work is not intended to be done until after the war emergency. The canal is the highest canal on the east side of Utah county and extends ex-tends northerly from Provo river to the Jordan Narrows, a distance dis-tance of 22 miles. |