| Show Creation of Central Utah Project comes Nearer with signing of area petitions GOVERNOR SIGNS WATER PETITION George D. Clyde was the to sign a petition for the creation of the C Utah Water Conservancy Calvin W. Democratic National also participated in the ceremony as Jay R. director of Utah Water and Power Board looks Creation of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District is being sought as quickly as so that congressional appropriations can be obtained to begin construction of the vital water projects in the coming fiscal PETITIONS to establish the district are now being circulated in the seven counties One of the first signers was Governor George D. He did so as a resident of Salt Lake-City in a special ceremony at his where Utah's Democratic National Calvin W. Raw also and thus gave it politically bipartisan I THE GOVERNOR said Cre- lation of the Central Utah ter Conservancy District and anticipated development of million water program in the next 20 will be the greatest thing that has happened to I Utah since The Central Utah a of coordinated is the largest participating project in the Colorado River Storage and is the way by which Utah will utilize its share of Colorado River UTAH WATER and Power Board Jay R. chairman of the which drafted the said the purpose of the district will be to sponsor and represent local interests in construction and development of the overall handle repayment costs allocated to and market the water to irrigation municipalities and Representatives from each of the seven counties Salt Was-I Summit and Juab negotiated details and conditions of the and reached agreement on specific items in the best interests of each area and the district overall BINGHAM said the first job of the district will be to work out details of the repayment specifying the cost of water and where and how it will be The state's water board di-rector also said he had been informed by the Department of the Interior that it has included an item in its proposed budget for fiscal but whether a congressional appropriation will be obtained will depend largely on whether or not the water district Is set 1 LAURENCE J. Burton Utah's First Congressional in giving his said the merger of the seven counties involved into the necessary conservancy would be news for all of Utah Representative Burton my if we can get the Central Utah Project now that this has been accomplished water it will be the greatest thing to happen in our state since the passage of thc Colorado River Storage one five out of the seven counties are depressed and the water will give them a tremendous economic boost ANOTHER EARLY signer of the petition was Harold E. president of the Utah Water Users Utah Attorney A. Pratt was another who signed at the ceremony in the Governor's In the district are approximately There are 41 incorporated in the seven counties Salt Lake has Utah County has and Tire LAW REQUIRES 5 per or is less in the unincorporated areas of the Then the petitions are presented to district court Fourth in this case mutual where the judge hears if and declares the district Any signer of a petition must own real estate property with an assessed valuation of more than Next to his signature is a description of his in order to show he A PERSON has in both a and an unincorporated he must sign as a resident of the By the maximum levy which the district can impose is one-half until construction begins and the repayment contract is then it may go to one but no IN SALT LAKE County the minimum number of petition signers is from unincorporated areas and from In Utah it's from Se CENTRAL page 7 Central Utah from Page unincorporated areas and from cities for Uintah it's in the county and in the for Duchesne it's in the county and 43 in the for Wasatch it's 75 in the county and 43 in the for Summit it's 13 in the county and 3 in the and for Juab it's 97 in the county and 69 in the city THE CENTRAL Utah Project will divert water from the Uintah Basin to the Bonneville The water will drop through a series of small hydroelectric and the water and power will be used for municipal and industrial Strawberry Reservoir will be enlarged to regulate this Reservoir will be built to replace and furnish additional quality water to the Uintah This constitutes the Million initial phase of the project The ultimate phase will tap the Green Gov Clyde has Central Utah Project is the key to development of Utah's resources for the next years Without Utah can never get the benefit of its share of the Colorado our last major water resource SENATOR Wallace F. Bennett advised Bingham that a few weeks delay in forming the conservancy district in all probability would cause at least a year's delay in obtaining appropriations to begin is the policy of the Bureau of Reclamation not to seek appropriations to start a project unless a conservancy district has been organized to assure repayment of assigned project costs by the water users Bennett project is ready for appropriations provided the water users respond swiftly to the necessity of forming a conservancy district Senator Frank E. Moss Central Utah Project will capture and utilize our state's share of Colorado River The project is fully The Vernal Unit is The planning needed for completion of tins' initial phase is far MUST NOW make the effort to complete the to get the project works to get water formation of the conservancy district is a necessary step in securing the appropriation that will do the Representative Sherman P. of the Second Congressional District grass roots judgments represented by the districts are of course essential to guarantee maximum and to guard against extremes PAY-BACK features represented by power requirements water for agricultural and industrial plus recreational uses in some add essential fiscal soundness to the basic intelligence of wise resource utilization |
