| Show great basin water project gets funds for study purposes state and federal government wll spend on water study water and power projects to be made cooperatively between the state and the federal government during the fiscal year beginning july at a total cost of approximately were given approval by the utah water ftp storage r age commission at a meeting saturday r 1 in the capitol included in the program are surveys of different phases of th the pro proposed posed colorado river great basin water project which was advanced some time ago by an engineering committee and for which the recent legislature made an appropriation of allots the commission saturday allocated of this to be spent during the first year on a land classification survey of the proposed 23 mile conduit from the colorado river to the great basin and continuation of investigation of power sites at split mountain dewey and dark canyon all on the green river a tributary of the colorado the states will be matched by a like amount from the federal government the federal bureau of reclamation is as nate all efforts on the colorado river great basin project in other areas the commission saturday also allocated in state funds for other surveys throughout the state most of which will receive federal aid completion of the green river and bear river survey and those on the lower weber price r river i ver blue bench and ouray are included in these among the new investigations will be eight proposed small reservoirs as follows woodruff big creek and otter creek R rich ich county beaver porcupine and newton creeks cache county bally watts and lost creek weber county and pinto and enterprise in iron county to continue projects the program adopted saturday also calls for continuation of sev eral important surveys which have been under way for some time including the green river bear river and studies on proposed projects in many other parts of utah the investigation of the split mountain dewey and dark canyon power sites have been under way for a year with funds supplied under the boulder canyon act and it is expected that the federal government will have re ports ready this fall the land classification or soil survey will be conducted by the experiment station of the U S A C and the U S bureau of soils and work will be started on monday this will determine the quality of soil in the acres in included in the proposed color colorado ado river great basin project in too ele juab millard sanpete San pete utah and salt lake counties the lands north of salt lake have already been classified as part of the green river bear river survey and lands in the uinta basin also have been classified state engineer T H humph crys said this will be one of the largest investigation programs ever undertaken in utah |
