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Show Page 12. WATER STORAGE POSSIBILITIES IN UTAH Reservoir sites of large capacity have been examined and reported by the Reclamation Service but vary Ix* tle, if any* attention has been given the prooiea of developing raservclr sites of small capacity. Practically erery stream in the State has some possibilities for this type of development. In many cases the streams carry too muoh sand and gravel at high water time to make storage on the stream channel a profitable consideration; but if the Water Storage Program were combined with a Program of Flood Control by which the sand and gravel were checked and held above flood control barriers the water may be diverted into storage reservoirs where sites are available at sens little distance from the main drainage channel* An example cf this is on Chalk Creek tear Fillmore where a suitable reservoir site lies about 1 mile away from the stream channel*' It is located between the County and State highway, to the North of Fillmore. Another site of this t^ pe lies to the North of Kphraim. There are numerous sites at the wpper reaches of mountain streams such as at the Uintahs end Waaatch Mountains where small lakes may be converted into reservoirs by raising the outlets and providing outlet gates. At the lower reaches of many of the streams equalising reservoira combined with flood and gravel control barriers may be built TOT the purpose, first, of checking gravel and sand carried at high Rater tima and second, to equalise the runoff from streams at high water time and thus provide a uniform delivery so that the water may be used efficiently where now it is only used in part and that, ^ ery inefficient because of tbe extreme fluctuation during every S£- » hou? periodo These streams |