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Show H:-^:? fe::;"' v> i... / « • Bureau of Reclamation 38. Echo reservoir, located 40 miles southeast of Ogden on the Weber River, completed in 1932 at a cost of approximately $ 3,000,000. Operation of the Echo Reservoir and the Deer Creek Reservoir are closely inter- related. " Project No. 5 a- In the initial development the supply is to be obtained from East Canyon, acquired through exchange of storage capacity in the Echo and proposed Magpie reservoirs for the East Canyon reservoir, involving the construction of a thirteen mile tunnel from East Canyon to Emigration, a conduit from Emigration to the Sunnyside reservoir." How it was proposed to finance all or any of these does not appear. " OUTSIDE" SOURCES RECOMMENDED The Board concluded that in order to provide a long- range program for a very substantial increase of population " Outside Sources" must be looked to; that, while the various " Local Sources" enumerated ought to be developed to the limit of their possibilities, " the better policy is to acquire the rights to a large supply now and develop the ' remnants later.'" To that end they recommended a series of continuing larger acquisitions of " Outside Sources" over a long period of time and one " Local Source" project for immediate construction. The " Outside Source" recommended for initial acquisition was Project No. 4- b, and subsequent to that, various water supplies which have subsequently become a large part of the water supply sources of the Deer Creek Division of the Provo River Project and the Echo Project, the latter then under construction and the former then being planned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The " Local Source" supply recommended for immediate action was the construction of the " Argenta Dam" in Big Cottonwood Canyon to store flood waters of Big Cottonwood Creek. It was estimated that this would make |
