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Show I irrigation Ditch hazard To Be Removed in City Joint announcement was made tins week by the Dry Gulch Irrigation Irri-gation Co. and Roosevelt City of the rerouting of the Page Lateral which runs through the city. Last fall the city passed a resolution reso-lution to prohibit open irrigation ditches in the city. It was specified speci-fied in the ordinance that the open op-en ditch was a difinite hazard for youngsters and interfered with a curb and gutter project now underway. under-way. The council asked cooperation coopera-tion of Dry Gulch Co. in removing remov-ing the hazard. According to Mayor Paul Murphy, Mur-phy, water from the Page ditch will be meTged with the water which runs through the State' Road lateral east and south past the Harmston sub-division near the Landscape Nursery and Floral (Continued on Back Page) IRRIGATION DITCH CHANGE (Continued from Page One) shop. The Page water will be taken tak-en from the state ditch on Lagoon Street across the gulch by floom and back into the old ditch near the Jay Fitzgerald home, southeast south-east part of the city. When this project is completed, and it is hoped it can be done before be-fore the irrigation season gets underway, un-derway, the present ditch from the corner of Second West and Second North (Mrs. Mary Freston corner) will be filled. This will allow for curb to curb paving on Second North from First West east to Highway 40, and will be completed by the state. The city' and irrigation company will share costs of the change and any new program necessary to complete the project. The city is to assume the initiative in making the change, so reported Lee Angus, An-gus, Dry Gulch secretary. |