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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1961
Page
5
A coalition of private utilities seeks toll gates between the Hoover storage project power sources and delivery points, threatening irrigation plans for millions of acre feet in Colorado New Mexico Utah and Wyoming. The move could delay water storage projects vital to Upper Basin states.
The Colorado River Storage Project, a large Bureau of Reclamation effort, promises vast agricultural expansion, new jobs, and regional economic growth across Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona. Utilities seek to control key transmission lines at a fraction of costs, risking delayed irrigation projects and reduced power revenue used to fund water storage. If built by the Bureau as planned, the project would deliver 6 mills per kilowatt hour, generating over 1 billion to support irrigation over a 100 year payout, but the utilities plan could cut this substantially and delay much needed irrigation in the four Upper Basin states.
Ten projects are approved under the Colorado River Storage Project with six started and four planned. Fourteen thousand acres will gain irrigation from the Vernal Unit, part of the Central Utah Project, costing about 7 million dollars. Other listed projects include Pronia, Hammond, Seedskadee, Smith Fork, Florida, Silt, Emery County, Lyman, and LaBarge, totaling multi‑million costs and vast land benefits in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Citizens urged to tell their lawmakers how Colorado Storage Project transmission lines should be built. Questions center on whether private utilities would profit or the Bureau of Reclamation should construct the system to save funds for irrigation projects. Addresses for Senators Bennett Moss and Representatives King Peterson are provided.
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