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Show $240,000 Appropriates to Aid Uinioii Eloshi fln'ige3vios2 Projcxvs ' ' .. ' LT.J ' ... i - " Utah Water & Power Board Gives Approval At December Meeting; Jay Bingham Is Appointed Director The Utah Power and Water Board has allocated funds, to assure at least $240,000 worth of irrigation and reservoir work in the Basin, and at the same time has authorized a complete study of the Uintah River water system. ....... B. O. Colton, Roosevelt, a member of the state boards said the board's latest action came with selection of Jay R. Bingham as director and executive secretary of the board. . Mr. Bingham succeeds Governor-elect George D.. Clyde. He has served for two years as assistant director. The projects on which the board took action are: Approved application of Uintah-Basin Uintah-Basin Irrigation Company, Myton,. for assistance in improving its" system and authorized an examination examin-ation of the system by a board engineer. The project will cost about $140,00.0, of which the state will pay approximately $105,000. The company's headquarters is at Myton, and it operates in the South Myton Bench-Pleasant Valley Val-ley area. Marion Ross is president. Ouray Gets Help Allocated $75,000 to help the Ouray Irrigation Company undertake under-take a $100,000 project to build two mountain reservoirs Cliff Lake and Whiterocks Lake. The company serves an area hard-hit by drouth, Mr. Colton said. Calvin Jorgensen of Avalon is president. Concerning the Uintah River study, Mr. Colton said the board took action, so that preliminary work could start many years sooner soon-er than projected under the Central Cen-tral Utah Project, of which it is a part of the "second phase," many years , in the future, ,, .. Steps taken in the Uintah. River area will be .of great.. benefit to Eastern Duchesne County and Western Uintah County. : : , . He spoke of the fact that water projects in the basin, particularly those connected with thei Central Utah Project, are aimed a reducing reduc-ing the waste flow unused water that is, some years has reached 1,000,000 acre feet in the Duchesne River alone. ., The Water and Power Board, organized only eight years ago, works on legislative appropriations and is slowly building up a revolving revolv-ing fund replenished by repayments repay-ments of allocations to local areas. Money is repaid over a period of 20 years. |