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Show Utah Reclamation Talks Underway In Washington Ora Bundy, chairman of the state department of publicity and industrial development, and president of the Colorado River-Great River-Great Basin water users association, associa-tion, is in Washington this week conferring with . Commissioner Straus of the Reclamation Bureau. Bur-eau. The conference will revolve around the subjects of continued investigations of irrigation possibilities pos-sibilities in Utah, and the development devel-opment of the Central Utah project. pro-ject. The Central Utah project calls for enlarging the capacity of the Strawberry reservoir from 250,-000 250,-000 acre feet to 1,500,000 acre feet. Water for the contemplated increase of Strawberry's storage capacity will originate in the Uintah mountains with the tapping tap-ping of Brush Creek, east of Vernal Ver-nal being the initial step. Moving westward, the upper flow of other Uintah mountain streams will be intercepted and diverted through a series of tunnels tun-nels into Strawberry reservoir. Thus an estimated 500,000 acre feet of - water will be carried through ninety-three miles of tunnel to supplement Strawberry's Straw-berry's irrigation supply. Installation of a hydo-electric plant, capable of producing more than 200,000 kilowats of electrical elect-rical energy is included in the plans for the Central Utah project. pro-ject. In the meantime, the Utah-Colorado river committee, brought into existance by the last session of the legislature , has enlisted the aid of the universities of Utah and Colorado and the Utah department of publicity and industrial in-dustrial development to act in the preparation of a comprehensive comprehen-sive report of the Colorado river potentialities in Utah. Based on the final report, the federal power commission will evaluate the resources of the Colorado River in terms of the potential potent-ial power market, and estimate costs of poweV development in Utah. Members of the river committee commit-tee are: William R. Wallice, Salt Lake City, chairman; Senator Elisha Warner, Payson, secretary; secre-tary; Senator James A. McMur-rin, McMur-rin, Logan; Senator Mitchell Melich, Moab; Representative John P. Madsen, Duchesne; Representative Rep-resentative Daniel S. Frost, Ka-nab; Ka-nab; Ed H. Watson, state engineer and Edward T. Saunders, Ogden, Weber county commissioner. |