Estimated costs and funds available. The estimated cost of the Klamath project is $7,475,000, including $3,346,000 for the Tule Lake division. Construction of canals, laterals, drains, and dikes has been in progress_with funds provided by Public Works allotments of $61,000 an Emergency Relief allocation of $135,000. A table containing data of estimated costs, funds available and funds needed to complete will be found at the end of this statement. Repayment contracts.-Government construction charges for the completed units are being paid under the 40-year repayment plan. The water charges on the various divisions of the project are approximately $56 per acre for the Langell Valley irrigation district; $15 per acre for the Horsefly irrigation district (a part of the Langell division); $42 to $58 for the Main division, including the Klamath irrigation district; and $16 to $34 per acre, plus the cost of the pumping plants and distribution system, for the pumping division. The per-acre charge for the Tule Lake division has been fixed at $88. Water is being delivered on a waterrental basis. Repayment will be made under a 20-year plan, unless the water users organize an irrigation district, in which event repayment will be made under the 40-year plan. Construction program.-Construction of the canals in the Tule Lake division has been in progress by Government forces under funds provided by the Public Works Administration and Emergency Relief allocations. An appropriation of $125,000 is requested for the fiscal year 1938. Of this amount $31,000 is for completion of 5.5 miles of the "J" canal. Completion of the canal will permit the wasting of water from pumping plants along the "D" canal, when power fails, directly to Tule Lake sump instead of passing the water through the Tule Lake pumping plants. Construction of 12 miles of laterals and parallel drains will require $55,000 and 10 miles of cross drains will require $34,000. This work will complete the lateral and drainage systems for an additional area of 5,000 acres. Five thousand dollars is requested for investigations of Clear Lake water rights. The act of June 26, 1936 (Pub., 826, 74th Cong.), authorized and directed the Secretary (1) to make a full and complete investigation with a veiw to determining whether any dams, water works, or any other projects have been constructed in the Clear Lake watershed, in the State of California, in violation of the water rights of the United States in such State, and (2) to report thereon to Congress as soon as practicable. An appropriation of $5,000 is requested to carry out the purposes of this act. Estimated costs, Klamath project, Oregon-California, funds available and estimate for fiscal year 1938 Mr. LEAVY. The next is the Klamath project, Oregon. One hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars is requested from the reclamation fund, and nothing was requested last year. Is that a new project? Mr. PAGE. No; that is an old project, and this is for the extension of a few canals, laterals, drains, and dikes, to permit the opening of a small additional area for settlement by the land owners in that vicinity. Mr. LEAVY. Will this complete that additional work? Mr. PAGE. No; not entirely. Mr. LEAVY. What is the contemplated cost of the completion of that improvement, or do you have it there? Mr. PAGE. The total estimated cost is $7,475,000, of which there has been spent $6,434,000. Mr. LEAVY. How old is this project? Mr. LEAVY. In 1906? Mr. PAGE. Yes. Mr. LEAVY. Does it have any hydroelectric development on it? Mr. PAGE. No; there is no hydroelectric development on this project. OWYHEE PROJECT, OREGON Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next project is the Owyhee project in Oregon, for which $500,000 is proposed. Mr. PAGE. I submit the following justification: Appropriations and allotments Appropriation requested for fiscal year 1938: Reclamation fund____ Funds available: Reclamation fund (principally) prior to fiscal year 1937. Emergency Relief appropriation (1935) Reclamation fund, fiscal year 1937.- Amount needed to complete after fiscal year 1938. Total to complete. - - Location. The Owyhee project extends 65 miles along the west side of the Snake River at the western extremity of a very large and successful irrigation development in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Over 78,000 acres lie in Malheur County, Oreg., in the vicinity of the towns of Ontario, Nyssa, and Adrian, and more than 27,000 acres in Owyhee County, Idaho, south and west of the Snake River. Purpose. The limited rainfall of 11 inches on the irrigable area of the project necessitates that irrigation be resorted to for successful production of crops. In order to accomplish this a storage reservoir has been constructed and a system of irrigation canals are under construction. The purpose of the appropriation for 1938 is to continue the construction work including canals, laterals and drainage system and pumping for irrigation. Description. The project includes the Owyhee Reservoir on the Owyhee River, 715,000 acre-feet capacity, created by a concrete dam 417 feet in height. Water is diverted through tunnels and 250 miles of canals to the irrigable lands. About two-thirds of the area is undeveloped lands and about 35,000 acres are already receiving a partial water supply by pumping from the Snake River. Nearly 5,000 acres were irrigated in 1935 and about double that area in 1936. Approximately 26,000 acres will be irrigated in 1937 and probably 40,000 acres in 1938. The total population on the farms and in towns is about 10,000. Estimated costs and funds available.-The estimated cost of the project is $18,000,000, of which $16,628,900 have been made available and $1,371,100 are needed to complete the project. In 1933 the project was under construction with appropriations from the reclamation fund. About $11,300,000 had been expended. The appropriation available at that time was impounded and $5,000,000 was allotted by the Public Works Administration to continue construction. Later an additional $1,500,000 was allotted but it was rescinded. An Emergency Relief Appropriation allocation of $1,500,000 was also made available but it was later reduced to $100,000. A tabulation will be found at the end of this statement which gives for the several features of the project, estimated costs, funds available, and funds needed to complete. 139751-37-pt. 1—16 Repayment contracts.-The various irrigation districts comprising the project have entered into contracts with the United States agreeing to repay, over a period of 40 years, a maximum of $18,000,000 which may be expended for the construction of the project. The cost per acre ranges from $152 to $167. The contract includes provisions whereby water will be furnished during the years 1936 to 1939 at 35 cents per acre-foot and from 1940 to 1949 the construction charge shall be $2.50 per irrigable acre per year. Construction in progress.-Work is in progress on the Gem irrigation district drains, Dead Ox division canal and pumping-plant system and laterals of the Dead Ox and Succor Creek divisions. On January 1, 1937, the drainage system was 25 percent completed, the canal practically finished, the pumping system 10 percent completed, and the laterals 80 percent. Construction program for fiscal year 1938.-The construction program for the fiscal year 1938 will provide for continuing construction of the pumping plant, lateral and drainage systems. Estimated costs, funds available, and estimate, Owyhee project, Oregon, for 1938 Mr. LEAVY. Now, the Owyhee project. Mr. PAGE. This $500,000 which is requested will not complete the project. The total cost of the project is about $18,000,000, and there will be some additional appropriation requested eventually for its completion. This, on the other hand, is probably adequate for this year. Mr. LEAVY. To carry through and continue it? Mr. PAGE. Yes. Mr. LEAVY. Is that a hydroelectric project in any sense of the word? Mr. PAGE. No. We use power for pumping water, but it is obtained from this interchange of power which we spoke of with these other plants. Mr. LEAVY. Do you make your interchange on an equal basis? Mr. PAGE. Yes; I think it is a straight cross-kilowatt-hour proposition. BELLE FOURCHE PROJECT, SOUTH DAKOTA Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next item is the "Belle Fourche project, South Dakota," for which you are requesting $130,000. Mr. PAGE. The justification in support of this item is as follows [reading]: Appropriation requested for fiscal year 1938, reclamation fund_____ $130, 000 Location.-Belle Fourche project is located in Butte County in western South Dakota, a short distance from the Black Hills. The project lands comprise an area of a prairie country 12 miles wide and 25 miles long, lying along both sides of the Belle Fourche River east of Belle Fourche, S. Dak. Description. The irrigation system includes a concrete diversion dam and headworks on the Belle Fourche River just below the town of Belle Fourche, a canal about 10 miles long for conveying the water to the storage reservoir on Owl Creek, and two main canals, the north and south canals, for conveying the water from the reservoir to the laterals on each side of the Belle Fourche River. The United States has expended $4,523,500 in constructing the project. The total area of the irrigable land is nearly 80,000 acres. About 40,000 acres on 900 farms were irrigated in 1935, having a total crop value of over $1,000,000. The population of the farms and the five towns on the project is about 6,500. Construction program for fiscal year 1938.—During the past few years of drought and low water flow in the streams, it has been necessary to use almost all of the water in the Belle Fourche Reservoir. The dam is faced with large concrete blocks. The demands for irrigation water have required a storage draw-down at a rate which is greater than the safe limit as fixed by technical studies of lateral pressure in the dam. Although no serious trouble has been experienced it is proposed to remedy the danger of breaks and slides by placing a rock blanket on the face of the dam for a distance halfway up and with a gradual slope of 4 to 1. This blanket will require the placing of 52,000 cubic yards of rock at an estimated cost of $2.50 per yard or a total of $130,000. Repayment is covered by an existing contract with the Belle Fourche irrigation district. Mr. LEAVY. In South Dakota you have the Belle Fourche project. Mr. PAGE. Yes. Due to the drought there has been an unusually heavy draft on the reservoir serving this project and the water was withdrawn faster than it seemed safe as fixed by technical studies of lateral pressure in the dam. To prevent pulling away of the paving and sloughing away of the front face of the dam it is proposed to put some rock on the face for protection. That is what this appropriation is requested for, to weight the slab, the concrete face on an earth-built dam, to prevent internal pressure from pushing the slab off when the water is drawn down to the minimum depth. Mr. LEAVY. This appropriation will be sufficient to accomplish that work? Mr. PAGE. Yes, sir. OGDEN RIVER PROJECT, UTAH Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next item is the "Ogden River project, Utah," for which you have estimated $250,000. Mr. PAGE. The justification in support of this item is as follows [reading]: Appropriation requested for the fiscal year 1938, reclamation fund-- Reclamation fund, secondary projects preceding fiscal year 1937. Estimated cost.. $250,000 13, 000 3, 450, 000 500, 000 4, 200, 000 Location.-The Ogden River project is located in Weber and Box Elder Counties, Utah, near the cities of Ogden and Brigham, Utah. Purpose. The project will furnish a supplemental water supply to 14,700 acres of irrigated land now having an inadequate supply; will furnish a full irrigation supply for 4,520 acres of unirrigated land, a large part of which is now dryfarmed; and will assure the city of Ogden an annual water-storage supply of 10,000 acre-feet for municipal and irrigation purposes. In general, the irrigated area is well developed and has been settled for many years. However, except for a few isolated areas irrigated by expensive pumping systems, crop production is severely handicapped by an inadequate water supply. Description. The major portion of the lands of the Ogden River project is now served by small canals receiving their water supply from the unregulated flow of local streams or artesian wells in the immediate vicinity of the irrigated lands. The water supply is inadequate. The works now under construction consist of the Pine View Dam and two canals. Data regarding the construction features are given below. The Pine View Dam is situated on the Ogden River about 7 miles above Ogden, Utah. The structure is a roiled-earth embankment with a rock fill on the downstream slope. The maximum height of the dam is 75 feet above foundation and the crest length is 500 feet. The volume of the embankment amounts to 170,000 cubic yards while that of the rock fill is 66,800 cubic yards. The outlet works consist of a 10.5-foot horseshoe-shaped tunnel about 200 feet long. Outflow from the reservoir is controlled by hydraulically operated gates located in a gate chamber at the end of the tunnel. Below the control gates the water is carried through the canyon by a concrete-lined tunnel about 400 feet long in two steel pipes, one having a diameter of 60 inches and the other a diameter of 72 inches. The smaller pipe discharges into the spillway stilling basin while the larger connects to the canal system through the Ogden Canyon conduit. The spillway is located on the right abutment. Water levels are controlled by three 17- by 17-foot radial gates. The channel is of the open type, and is concrete-lined where necessary. The reservoir formed by the dam has a capacity of 41,000 acre-feet and covers about 1,800 acres of land. The construction of Pine View Dam and reservoir necessitated the building of about 11 miles of highway to replace roads within the reservoir site, the relocation of several miles of telephone line, the removal of the tracks of the UtahIdaho Central Railroad, the capping of 47 artesian wells of the Ogden city watersupply system, and the construction of a 38-inch steel outlet pipe underneath the reservoir and dam to connect with the city's water supply line. The Ogden Canyon conduit is a 75-inch woodstave pipe line about 4.7 miles long. This conduit connects the outlet works with the canal system. In addition to supplying the project canal system with water, this conduit serves the existing Pioneer power plant of the Utah Power & Light Co. The canal system consists of the Ogden-Brigham Canal and the South Ogden Canal. The Ogden-Brigham Canal has an initial capacity of 120 second-feet and will irrigate lands between Ogden and Brigham, Utah. This canal is concretelined for its entire length of 23.9 miles. The South Ogden Canal will irrigate lands to the south and east of the city of Ogden. This 35-second-foot canal is concrete-lined for the 3.5 miles of its length. Estimated cost and funds available.-The ultimate cost of the Ogden River project is estimated at $4,213,000 divided as follows: Examination and surveys. Storage system... Canal system.. Operation and maintenance during construction_ $13, 000 2, 129, 600 2,050, 400 20,000 Originally the cost of this project was estimated at $3,500,000. However, foundation difficulties at the dam site have made necessary certain changes in the plans, which required that the contractor do some extra work at the dam site. Costs of materials have increased and the canal excavation quantities have been higher than those originally estimated. The commencement of work on this project was authorized in 1933 when $3,000,000 was allotted to the project by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works from funds available under the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. The original Public Works Administration allotment has since been increased to $3,450,000. An additional $500,000 has been allocated to the project from funds made available through the Emergency Relief Act of 1935. The table at the end of this statement shows the distribution of the estimated costs, funds available, and the estimated appropriation for the fiscal year 1938 for the several physical features of the project. Repayment contract.-On May 31, 1934, the Ogden River Water Users' Association executed a contract with the United States for the construction of the Pine View Reservoir to a capacity of 38,000 acre-feet and the construction of the necessary project canals. Under the contract the cost to the association was limited to $2,900,000 to be repaid in 40 equal annual installments. On November 30, 1935, a supplemental contract was entered into by the same parties providing for a storage of 41,000 acre-feet in lieu of the 38,000 acre-feet called for in the previous contract and limiting the cost to the association to $3,500,000 instead of the previous amount of $2,900,000. The terms of repayment remain the same as in the original contract. |