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Show Projects. A contract has been awarded for topographic mapping of the Silt Project lands. It is planned to complete the detailed land classification in the spring of 1957. 2. Authorized New Mexico Participating Projects a. Hammond Project Irrigation water would be supplied for 3,670 acres of new lands lying in a narrow 20-mile strip along the south side of the San Juan River opposite the towns of Blanco, Bloomfield, and Farmington, New Mexico. Project works would include the Hammond Diversion Dam on the San Juan River, a 28-mile gravity canal, and a pumping unit to lift water to the East and West Highline laterals, minor distribution ditches, and a drainage system. Land classification for this project has been finished. A site for the head works of the Main Canal has been inspected. The field office is compiling field data for the design of a diversion dam. There is still a question of water rights to be settled, but the program calls for having a definite plan report completed by September, 1957. 3. Authorized Utah Participating Projects a. Emery County Project The Emery County Project would provide supplemental water for 20,450 acres of land and a full supply for 3,630 acres in Emery County in east-central Utah near the towns of Huntington, Castle Dale, and Orangeville. Principal construction fe.atures would include the Joes Valley Dam and Reservoir which would impound 57,000 acre-feet of water on Cottonwood Creek, the Swasey Diversion Dam located ten miles downstream from Joes Valley, and the 17-mile Cottonwood-Huntington Canal heading at the Swasey Diversion Dam. Canals, laterals and drains would be constructed as required. The completion of the definite plan report for this project is subject to completion of a similar report on the Central Utah Project. It will probably be 1958 before actual definite planning can get started. The first work that will be accomplished will be classification of the land, with the project report to be completed by September, 1959. _44- |
