Show Ranchers in Sowers and Antelope Canyons approve building Flood control storage reservoir The Soil Conservation k has been notified recently that the farmers and ranchers in Sowers and Antelope south of are in favor of proceeding toward the of a storage reservoir under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Public Law Preliminary estimates were presented to the group by John assistant state conservationist of the Soil Conservation in a meeting held at Duchesne on January called by the Uintah Soil Conservation Estimates include a feet reservoir which will provide acre-feet of irrigation water- storage and acre-feet for sediment This feet storage would provide acres with 1 14 feet of supplementary water each This reservoir is to be located about a mile inside the Ashley National Forest boundary in Sowers south of Project To Cost Cost 01 me project would be about with the local providing about 54 1 of the and the federal gover 45 of the cost of the reservoir The project is sponsored by the Uintah Soil Conservation District and the Duchesne County Officials and workers who contributed to the preliminary work on the watershed include the Forest Indian county Soil Conservation Service and local water users A more detailed investigation of the project and surveys are to be made during the summer and Possibly project construction will commence during This project has been in the planning stage for more than 30 It was in the records show that the state engineer started plans for the watershed project in this Farmers and ranchers of the Antelope area who are to participate in the watershed project William C Foy and George Orin L. Leo S Orven J. Elmer R. David A. W. C. Kenneth J. and Phillip |