Show funds ready for use in Duchesne county Commencement of the 1965 Agricultural Conservation Program has been authorized according to Wanless Chairman of the Duchesne County This will make available a portion of the 1965 county allocation of for approval of conservation practices to be performed this The first date for consideration of requests for Federal cost-sharing by the Duchesne County Committee is August Subsequent dates are as September October and October Chairman Shields explained that the program will provide for the most part the same rates of cost-sharing and specifications for conservation practices that were available under the 1964 Agricultural Conservation Chairman Shields further explained that during the period July 1 to December 1964 program provisions will remain the permitting the payment of Federal assistance under either the 1964 or 1965 depending on the status of program funds in the It is pointed out that program provisions may change on January Such changes will he publicized at that Requests for cost-sharing for conservation practices to be performed during the fall months may be filed at the Duchesne County allowing 30 days for the approval to be the construction of this phase of the project during the next fiscal Neeley said three survey crows arc on the site and would continue to work here throughout the Colored slides were projected showing the beauty of the terrain in the areas of the mapped reservoir and Ed Wis-combe and Neeley of the BR narrated plans and statistics for these irrigation pro including the starvation the Upper Stillwater Reservoir near the Rock Creek Dude now owned and operated by and Duane Meriwether of The Duchesne River as a Strawberry Aqueduct system from the Upper was shown on a projected as well as colored slide photos of the The Strawberry Aqueduct is to have an aggregate of miles of pipelines and from the Upper The Upper Stillwater Dam is designed as a rolled earth feet high and 2720 ft The reservoir site is surface with a total water capacity of and an active capacity y I of acre feet This dam and reservoir is designed to capture and impound high flow of the water of Rock an acreage yearly operation of surface acre feet of Neeley He said for recreation the reservoir could be kept at capacity during the recreation seasons from June to and the water released during the winter The minimum water surface at Rock Creek Reservoir would be surface acre feet At this Al of the Strawberry area asked Neeley about the boundaries of the reservoir up the Strawberry Neeley said he would direct 1 In the area to designate the boundaries for explained to Sceley the importance of the farmers and ranchers in this area knowing these boundaries and time for thc JL in order could better plan their and ranching |