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Show President Pushes Key To Start Work On Flomisig Gorge Project Massive Structure North Of Vernal To Hold 91-Mile Lake On Green River; Core Drillers First To Start y President Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhow-er pressed a telegraph key in Washington Monday, and a water project vital to the Uintah Basin was launched explosively in the rugged Flaming Gorge of the Green River midway between Vernal and Green River, Wyo. It is the $82,000,000 Flaming Gorge project of the giant Colorado Colo-rado River works and it will eventually create a reservoir 91 miles in length to furnish power and store water for a huge section sec-tion of eastern Utah. Companion projects to Flaming Gorge are the Glen Cayon project on the Utah-Arizona line, the Navajo project in San Juan County, Coun-ty, New Mexico, and the Cure-canti Cure-canti project of three or four dams on the Gunnison River in Colorado. The Flaming Gorge Dam site is about five miles south of the Utah-Wyoming Utah-Wyoming line. The reddish sandstones sand-stones of the Uinta formation give the site its name. A power plant will be located at the downstream base of the 450-foot high dam. The width at crest will be 900 feet. Construction will begin next spring with work on the single diversion tunnel to carry the Green River around the dam site. Bids will be asked next month for the construction of an access road with a temporary bridge over the Green River from Manila. Core drilling crews are now working at the site. Bids for the prime contract will be asked about a year from now, and construction is expected to take about six years. |