The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-21
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A BIG POWER PROJECT

! WASHINGTON, D. c., June 49,
The Utah Power and Light company
will expend between SIG, 100000 and
100000 in the Flaming Gorge
power project when the preliminary
permit granted them by the federal
power commission is superseded by
license. Details Of the project will
not be definitely known until the
company completes its surveys and
submits definite plans for power de-
velopment and distribution.
The spectacular feature of the pro-
! ject, as outlined in the application
for permit, is the concrete dam to
be built across Green river, which
will be 215 feet high and approx
mately 60 feet long at the crest, and
will rank with the largest dams built
by the reclamation service. From
this dam, at point near the top,
the company proposes to build a
tunnel twenty-five feet in diameter,
three and half miles long, to dis
charge the waters so far below the
dam that fall of 415 feet may be
had. The dam site lies about nine
miles from Manila, and is not readily
accessible to the railroad, Green
river being the nearest point. The
power company is yet to determine
whether to build a spur to the dam
site or to float it's material down
Green river. The inaccessibility of
the dam site is one element that
runs up the cost of the project
$4,000 Horsepower
The Flaming Gorge dam, as pro-
posed, would create slack water clear |
to the town of Greenriver, Wyo., and |
Of this water at the outlet |
of the tunnel would produce approx
mately $4,000 horsepower, which,
in addition to being marketed in
Salt Lake City, will be sold to the
coal mines around Rock Springs
and Kemmerer, Wyo. In an air line
the power plant lies 100 miles east
of Salt Lake City, and the trans
mission lines to that point will cost
IN the neighborhood of $2,5O0,0OO.
The great items of cost, however,
will be the dam, the tunnel and the
generating machinery
The Utah Power & Light company
made extensive surveys of this pro-
ect last summer, and it is thought
he remaining surveys will take
comparatively short time. The COM
amy has in mind an alternating plan :
# building two dams instead of one,
nd this question will be settled after
urther engineering studies By
two dams, the drilling of
he tunnel could be avoided
Objections Withdrawn
Nearly two years and half have
lapsed since the Utah Power &
light company applied for a permit =
Or the Flaming Gorge project. They
ere held up at first by the creation
the Colorado river commission,
nd later by the strenuous objection
the state of Colorado, which OPP
osed the granting Of the permit I'M
i Arizona had ratified the pact.
dorado has recently withdrawn its
ELECTIONS, and opposition from the
dorado river commission was with
rawn, when a condition was written
to the permit making the power
ghts at Flaming Gorge subordinate ?
irrigation at all times.
Instead of the Flaming Gorge
,wer development interfering with |
rigation, the federal power com i
ission holds it will actually be ben II
icial through the storage of water, II
Id the commission expects in thine III
at the power company will be re- u
lbursed, in part, on account of the
'nefits to irrigation which will at
nd the building of the Flaming
,rge dam. The tunnel of the Ut;
'wer & Light company will be of
fficient capacity to carry the entire
W of Green river, and it is not
lieved that any irrigation develop
emit that may be undertaken
owe the dam will diminish the
W to a point that will in any way
ndicap the development Of power.
Salt Lake Tribune.