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Show First Project Tests Scheduled SALT LAKE CITY Bureau of Reclamation engineers are expected ex-pected to start diamond core drilling about May 10 on the Monks Hollow Dam Site in Diamond Dia-mond Fork Canyon, 15 miles east of Spanish Fork, according to E.rO. Larson, regional director direct-or of the Bureau. The drilling, first detailed investigation in-vestigation to be made on the Central Utah Project, probably will take six or seven weeks, Mr. Larson said. About nine holes, I two of them 400 feet deep, will be bored in order that the character char-acter of the rock may be accurately accur-ately determined. ' The drill will be moved to the site from Daniels dam site on the Little Malad River where the Bureau is completing rock foundation foun-dation tests. At the same time additional field crews will be sent into bpanisn hotk uanyon 10 survey other proposed reservoirs, tunnels tun-nels and canal lines. The Central Utah Project, in-i eluding Monks Hollow as a reg-ulatory reg-ulatory reservoir for firm power, pow-er, is proposed to import 600,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water wa-ter to the Great Salt Lake Basin for irrigation and power production pro-duction purposes. State irrigation irriga-tion leaders estimate the project would be incentive for a population popu-lation influx of a quarter of a million people to Utah. |