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Our Rivers needs your help
PLEASE OPPOSE THE LRWP
- How? Email YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
- 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
- (435) 459-1621
- ammon.boswell@usda.gov.
- How? Email YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
- 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
- (435) 459-1621
- ammon.boswell@usda.gov.
Find out about the Logan River Watershed Project
LRWP includes a hidden plan to convert the Little Logan River into a canal by innocently "lowering the crest of the Crockett structure".
This project plans to
CONFISCATE THE Little Logan RIVER
There is zero explanation of the DIRE consequences of the plan to lower the crest of the Crockett structure for the community and Little Logan River in the DEIS.
Even 10 inches of lowering will dry out the Little Logan River, convert it into a dry ditch, and turn the most cherished river in our community into a legal canal.
- It is being led by the Cache Water District instead of MIDA.
- The public has minimal direct say in the project,
- The public would be funding a plan that converts our urban river into a canal!
- Sponsors provide little of the key information that the community needs: like costs to convert to the new system, impacts on users, whether Benson, Northfield and SW Field canal will be open or piped, how subsidies work, why population growth rates used to justify the project are almost twice actual ones, why one river is given more water regardless of drought and other river gets massive decreases in its water past the high school and two eastern parks.
- The LRWP is designed for the benefit of very few, while harming most of us in the community.
- Are these enormous subsidies justified in this time of mega-drought?
- The LRWP HAS ENORMOUS dire, negative consequences for our community
- AND it is wildly expensive.
- LRWP, if it isn't stopped, will spend almost half a billion of our money in its 50-year planned period.
- Laudable goals could be accomplished with far less expense and far less damage to our community.
Taxpayers have three ways to be heard:
- Monday, June 1st,
- 5:30 p.m. in the
- Cache County Historic Courthouse Chambers,
- 199 N Main St., Logan.
- Public Comment period is near the beginning of the meeting.
- Expect your comments to be cut short.
- Practice before hand please.
- Consider handing out more information
MORE DETAILS on opposition:
- PLS comment and oppose the Draft Environmental Impact Statement of the LRWP
- before June 23, 2026 :
- Attend June 1 meeting of the Cache Water district at 530:
- Monday, June 1st, 5:30 p.m. in the Cache County Historic Courthouse Chambers, 199 N Main St., Logan. Public Comment period is near the beginning of the meeting.
- enormous one time expense (310 million) and ongoing 2 million annually in taxes of everyone,
- to encourage MORE residential irrigation---
- which in Utah is mostly going to mean that your river water will be used to irrigate excess turf,
- Governor Cox defined excess turf as "turf you only walk on when you mow it"
- (Right-sized turf is ideal).
- will dig up 120 miles (~1000 blocks) of streets,
- make the 95% of shareholders who flood irrigate upgrade their irrigation systems at considerable expense,
- during a mega-drought, and
- to damage our parks and Little Logan River in the process??
- with zero water during extreme droughts,
- possibly converting our natural Little Logan River into a canal that depends on the "largess" of canal companies and the water share of Logan City for any water in the summer,
- while continuing the damaging practice of diverting all natural water away from the Little Logan River in the winter.
- converts true open canals into dry ditches or buried piped features.
- CLICK TO SEE VIDEO RECORDING of the public meeting and transcript of opposition to the LRWP on May 20, 2026. The information presented is lightly ANNOTATED with corrections.
- Sponsors want the public to think that their project is "a done deal".
- HOWEVER: there is no funding allocated for the next phase.
- YOUR comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement that MUST BE addressed by sponsors.
- You can lobby the Cache Water District, the sponsors of the project
- You can lobby your city to drop out or modify this plan.
PLEASE OPPOSE THE LRWP
by submitting a detailed comment with objections to the draft EIS:
- Email YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
- 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
- (435) 459-1621
- ammon.boswell@usda.gov.
- Email YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
- 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
- (435) 459-1621
- ammon.boswell@usda.gov.
June 22 deadline.
- YOU can use these issues in your comments:
- The Little Logan River (green below) is being MIS-represented as a canal-but it is a TRUE RIVER. It is the north edge of Logan's Island.
- The water users will be required to invest in new irrigation systems at great expense.
- That expense is "hidden" from users.
- The $310,000,000 price tag of LRWP is shocking and huge!
- A prior and very large irrigation project services a similar area yet cost only 26,000,000 in 2014.
- The price of LRWP is 10-15 times as much!!!!!!!
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| over a DOZEN parks and public spaces (in green) may have a mere trickle of open water if the LRWP proceeds in its current form. Logan HIGH area and eastern parks section will see flows decrease form peaks of about 50 and 85 to as little a zero in extreme droughts. |
- The 26-year-long MEGA-Drought is not mentioned in the plan. How can a water project ins Utah fail to consider this?
- The collapsing Great Salt Lake is not being considered in the document, plan, or DEIS.
- Why is there no plan to lease the unused water shares to the Great Salt Lake for now?
- Such a lease provides quick money for upgrading the canals.
- The public was told that Little Logan River will not be harmed in a public meeting YET THAT IS FALSE.
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| Collapse of the Great Salt Lake is KNOWN to be threatening to our health and the entire economy of the state of Utah. Air pollution in Utah ALREADY shortens our lives by 1-3.6 years. Air pollution already increase miscarriages. |
- Will the Benson and Northfield open canals and waterways become a dry ditch with weeds, trash accumulation, possibly be used by unhoused people, and possibly be filled with stagnant water that grows algal scum?
- Will the Northfield and Benson canals become a pressurized pipe?
- Will there be a trail on top of the pipe?
Why subsidize the smaller number of farmers still in this irrigation district?
Why encourage home-owners to use river water to irrigate their landscapes?
Businesses that install and maintain irrigation systems, landscaping firms, and construction companies are the main ones to benefit from this massive subsidy.
You may prefer for this federal tax money to restore Utah's slashed food stamp allocations instead.
You may prefer that this federal tax money restore the cuts to Utah's medicaid funding, to help your family hey the acre they need.
YOU can point out all the flaws and mis-represenations in the project plan and DEIS that make this project untenable.
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| River Hollow Park has the highest flows along the Little Logan River. |
- Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
- 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
- (435) 459-1621
- ammon.boswell@usda.gov.
Some approaches to opposing the massive tax-funded project:
PLEASE join your community members in the Two River Coalition in opposing this LRWP.
At the May 20th public meeting, the public was given a miserly 2 minutes per person to counter 2803 pages of plans and 10 years of nearly secret planning.
Speakers from the public were cut off mid sentence.
~15 members of the public revealed numerous problems and issues:
And again, for what? This is, to a large extent, protecting turf grass....
...It turns out that NRCS money is our money. That's our taxes, right? So it's not money that just falls out of the sky.....
....I think the biggest point I have to make here is we have not really had a conversation about conserving, which is the cheapest way to get more water.....
The sponsors proclaimed falsely on 5.20.26 that they would not harm the Little Logan River.
INSTEAD, THEIR PLAN IS EXTREMELY HARMFUL to the LITTLE LOGAN RIVER.
It assumes the river is a canal.
Sponsors may be hiding their plan to convert the Little Logan River into a canal in appendices of the DEIS.
HOW? Dredge and lower the bed of the main stem Logan River.
Leave the Little Logan River's intake high and dry.
MORE INFO:
- Learn more about about threat below and other posts, another post,
- HOW we know the Little Logan River is a river (>30 ways) that will be damaged by the LRWP because sponsors are allowed to manage it like a canal.
- The project will degrade over a dozen of Logan's Island parks, using 310 million of our tax money (including ~30 million from our local tax base) and requiring 2 million every year to maintain.
Public Comment Period—Draft Plan-EIS
Open: Friday, May 8, 2026
Close: Monday, June 22, 2026
Contact Information
Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
(435) 459-1621
Detailed plan for the LRWP is poorly outlined in thousands of pages (2803 pages). It is nearly impossible to understand and even sponsors are confused about ket apsects. With appendices, the DRAFT PLAN is thousands of pages long. RESIDENTS have UNTIL AT LEAST JUNE 22 to comment.
- WHAT IS THE ACTUAL FEE STRUCTURE?
- Will EVERYONE in the 3 cities be required to pay a monthly fee without getting irrigation water? THIS APPEARS TO BE A FEE OF $84/YEAR FOR ALL HOUSEHOLD. THE DEIS STATES THIS ON PAGE XXX.
- WHY WAS 18 MONTH-OLD OUTDATED FLYRS WITH A DIFFERENT FEE STRUCTURE HANDED OUT TO THE PUBLIC ON MAY 20TH?
- THE SEPT 2024 HANDOUT PROVIDED AT THE MAY 20TH PUBLIC MEETING SHOWS THAT USERS OF THE PRESSURIZED IRRIGATION SYSTEM WILL BE CHARGED $360 TO $840 EVERY YEAR TO CONNECT TO THE SYSTEM.
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| WHY ARE THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LOGAN RIVER TREATED SO DIFFERENTLY IN THIS PROJECT? Q: Why is South Branch provided at least 25 cfs whereas the North Branch in our greenbelt and parks gets dialed down to less than 5 cfs? Q: How can sponsors justify making ZERO meaningful changes in their plan to mitigate the Extreme Drought that has been gripping most of Utah since 2000? HOW? Why does this project cost 309 million to install plus 2 million a year to maintain. That is >11 times that two canals in the Highline rebuild completed in 2014. |
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Logan's Island hosts many of Logan's greenbelt and our premier parks and public spaces.
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The Logan River Watershed Project will spend our state, local and mostly FEDERAL tax moneys- if Congress approves. LEASING un-needed water owned by water users to the GSL until it is needed locally could potentially provide revenue for upgraded infrastructure far more quickly than the LRWP. |
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UNDERSTANDING THE LRWP is hard:
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| Annotated main map figure from LRWP draft environmental project. Summary |
- Amounts and percentages of flow reduction vary wildly, and are most severe in eastern parks and Logan High reaches. There, up to 95% reduction is predicted when comparing peak current discharges to expected discharges during the ongoing extreme and severe drought.
The Public can finally review and comment on the LOGAN RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT (after 18 months of dead silence).
PLEASE comment on DRAFT Environmental Impact Statement. Information is here.
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| Moms and kids enjoying the Little Logan River in a threatened section of the Little Logan River. Merlin Olsen Park (above) to the Fairgrounds are apparently not being treated like a river that required protection by the State Engineer. |
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| ABOVE: Screenshot of the Web page that posted the Draft EIS proposal. It was updated on May 11th when the DEIS was posted. That web site reports a May 8th posting but the posting occurred days later, with email notification after business hours. The public is owed extra day to file our reactions to this plan. |
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| Families using the Little Logan River for recreation |
A public meeting is planned on May 20th, 6-8 pm auditorium of Logan High School.
Hopefully this meeting will be recorded and posted.
(The prior October 2025 meeting was not recorded or posted)
- year round water, (NOT INCLUDED)
- at least 10 cfs of summer flow (so most kids can continue to go tubing), (NOT INCLUDED)
- no new structures placed in the river bed. (TBD)
- Stop managing the Little log. n river like a canal.
Watch for DRAFT EIS on the web site.
Time is short.
Ask for advice at WethePeopleCV@gmail.com
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/state-offices/utah/logan-river-watershed-project
Let’s preserve and enhance our priceless amenity:
The Little Logan River
OR
"Treating a cat like a dog won't makes it bark”
Dr. Susanne Janecke, Sept 16, 2025
View video of typical summer flows in East reach of Little Logan River. A small fraction of that flow would persist under LRWP.
This public works project has laudable goals to update outdated irrigation infrastructure of several canals that divert water north from the Little Logan River. +ACTUALLY and FULLY honor the public's rights,+preserve rivers and landscapes,+enhance our fabulous greenbelt of parks,+maintain sufficient open flow (>>8 cfs) of natural river water,+restore winter river water to Logan, Utah’s rivers and Island area,+and lease unused water rights to help prevent further collapseof the Great Salt lake and Utah's economy.
KEY POINT: THE LITTLE LOGAN RIVER IS A NATURAL RIVER--AND THIS EASILY PROVABLE FACT ENTITLES THE PUBLIC TO PROTECTIONS
Problem statement:
The Little Logan River is a natural river, not a man-made canal. Plans to upgrade the canals that are fed by the river will degrade the Little Logan River unless its river status is protected, as required by law since the early 1970s.
River status gives Little Logan River extra protection. Unfortunately, sponsors of Logan River Watershed Project appear to be planning and managing the Little Logan River as if it were a man-canal that can be modified at will.
A win-win solution is possible with ZERO impact on the water provided to existing or potential water users. The excess unused water right (~ 45-55 cfs) could keep the Little Logan River healthy and satisfy the law.
Key to this win-win solution is the fact that the Crockett Canal companies have rights to 140 cfs of river water at peak flows but there have been no users for more than 85 cfs in at least two decades. Records dating back to the 1970s show that the full allotment was NEVER in the Little Logan River on its way to canals. Peak flows have been below 100 cfs since 1997 and below 120 cfs since about 1987.
The large excess right is not being shared with the public that owns the water.
The Logan River Watershed Project is motivated by a desire to spend tax moneys (~135 million dollars) to find new users of the unused water right.
With FAR TOO FEW USERS of the Crockett water rights, it is remarkable and noteworthy that the sponsors propose an extremely stingy amount of water for the Little Logan River.
They propose that ZERO water flows in the Little Logan River during droughts and a maximum of 10 cfs during unspecified conditions.
Grinches all!
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Sponsors have erroneously claimed that most of the Little Logan River is a canal. This claim is critical for sponsors to perpetrate the alarming degradation planned, with limited transparency, to our incredible river. (Many updates since October 2024 have not been shared with the public)
The last updated version of the Logan River Watershed Project does not treat the Little Logan river as a river, with required legal protections. It appears that sponsors have barely considered the law or the public’s rights in their planning.
Yet the public was assured REPEATEDLY that the plan for upgrading infrastructure does not damage the Little Logan River. Sadly those assurances never matched with posted documents later posted to describe the project, nor with checks of other facts.
The Little Logan river will not be healthy unless it has enough water to sustain its current uses, including very popular water sports by families, cooling, environmental functions and fish begin to return to this river. 10-15 cfs guaranteed in the summer along the entire river would accomplish this public benefit.
The published plan for the Little Logan River promises to limit water flows in the Little Logan River to a very low and worrisome range of ZERO to TEN cfs.
Sponsors have told us that they are not legally permitted to allow water to continue to flow in the river bed after the irrigation season ends in October.
The assertion/myth/speculation/ of the river being a canal was seemingly never tested against the legal, geologic, regulatory or historic evidence.
Qr code helps you to share the reportBy Dr. Susanne Janecke
Updated July 2025
Return to this information portal
SKIP AHEAD TO A POWERPOINT TALK (5 minutes) about the Little Logan river's precarious future (use find "talk").
Main points:
+Public rivers and our best parks are fabulous amenities of Logan Utah. They are entitled to protection by law yet current plans of the Logan River Watershed Project to upgrade outdated irrigation infrastructure and reduce storm floods (worthy goals) unnecessarily threaten the open flow of natural river water year-round in the Little Logan River. More river water will be diverted away from the Great Salt Lake.+Plans would result in more river water being diverted away from the Great Salt Lake.
+The necessary upgrades could be designed to preserve and enhance the public’s wishes and rights along the Little Logan River.
+INSTEAD, current plans favor irrigators and developers and sub-minimally honor the public’s rights and our clearly articulated desire to preserve and enhance the river’s COUNTLESS benefits and amenities.
+The Great Salt Lake needs water from the Logan River more than lawns and landscapes. Great Salt Lake has dropped back into its most dire condition only 4-5 years after a pair of super-wet winters prevented a total biological collapse. It is classified as being in an EXTREME ADVERSE condition!
+Plans of the Logan River Watershed Project for the natural river in the heart of our community impact almost a dozen public spaces. Sponsors promise so little open-flowing water in the Little Logan River that there is a significant risk of the river becoming 1) an unacceptable and dangerous (?) dry river bed in parts of the summer, or 2) a mere trickle with stagnant ponds. IF drought continues, there might be no water in the Little Logan River- according to sponsors. LEARN MORE HERE.
+Rivers rarely support algae infestations in northern Utah, unless their flow is dialed down to an unnatural trickle, forming stagnant reaches. The Virgin River in southern Utah, however, regularly has toxic algae and dead pets despite flowing at many tens of cfs.
+Dated photographs document an algae problem in the Little Logan River arising in part from mismanagement in winter. (Field trips on request). Algae is also a worrisome problem in piped canals.
+Preserving the open flow in the Little Logan River and restoring its winter flow does not preclude an overdue and successful rebuild of outdated irrigation infrastructure and upgrades to reduce flooding.
+Unused river water could be leased to the Great Salt lake. New laws allow such leasing.
Little Logan River is under threat from the Logan River Watershed Project
in its current form:
Reports are clickable at blue text.
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| Algal infestations are serious problem in and near several water projects undertaken by JUB. Similar results may develop along the Little Logan River if the project moves forward. Algae is even present in the main Logan River below the Highline canal takeout. |
The Highline Canal take-out dewaters the Logan River so much that Algae has grown to a thick mat there as well. Fish appear to be trapped downstream of the take out because there is too little surface flow
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| Blackett et al map of geology of GSL |
The Great Salt Lake is collapsing
GREAT SALT LAKE:
Reports about the Great Salt Lake are GREEN
The Great Salt Lake is collapsing: Overconsumption is THE main reason but a megadrought is worsening the condition of the lake. The lake can be saved with policy changes.
More information about the Great Salt Lake. It needs every extra drop.
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PLEASE visit and consider the ACTION ITEMS below
RIVER TOPICS-Summary
Short summary presentation June 10, 2025, with action items: tinyurl.com/savellr
KEY RIVER ISSUES:
Sponsors have long claimed that the Little Logan River is only a canal or ditch. More than 8 types of evidence and many hundreds of legal documents prove that the river is primarily a natural river that also conveys irrigation water to canals.
The public owns all of the water of the Little Logan River and water users have a right to use some of that water during the irrigation season. The public also owns the land under the river and some of its banks.
“Erroneous” classification as a canal deprives the historic natural river of many legal protections at state and federal level.
Plans appear to deprive Great Salt Lake of EVEN MORE WATER during its extremely adverse conditi0ons!
Plans appear to be extremely costly (household min fees of $350-760/year) and disruptive to our communities
Possibility of trivial open flow of river water could choke the Little Logan River with algae, as happened along 3 recent rebuilds completed in our communities by JUB engineering.
Complete desiccation is also possible.
Little Logan River has started to be plagued by algae due to unpermitted winter diversion of its water south into the main branch of the Logan River.
Strong and consistent public desire to preserve and enhance our natural river appears to have had minimal impact on LRWP. Ask for details.
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What can YOU do? See below:
Sadly, citizens are not able to vote directly for or against the Logan River Watershed Project but we CAN vote for members of city councils, mayors, and water boards.
November municipal election is very important for this reason.
PLEASE VOTE for River-friendly candidates in LOGAN and North Logan and Hyde Park. ASK THEM THEIR POSITION
ACTION ITEMS:
Get informed. There are detailed reports at the portal TINYURL.COM/SAVELLR
Let the Logan, North Logan, and Hyde Park City Council, Mayors, and all candidates know that you are unhappy/that plans to upgrade infrastructure along the Little Logan River is also unnecessarily:
Managing our public river water primarily for irrigators and owners of water rights,
Appearing to skirt the protections due the Little Logan River in Utah code 73-3-29
Encouraging homeowners to use river water currently flowing
to the GSL to water lawns,
Capturing river water to encourage future sprawl and development.
Summary: This project mostly benefits canal companies, irrigators,
and developers while degrading our river, community and harming
the Great Salt Lake.
KEY FACTS:
The right to use the river water for irrigation does not void the public’s rights to the unallocated river water, preserving the environment and wildlife that use the river, recreation, and its ownership of the river water.
DID YOU KNOW: The Little Logan River is flowing across land owned by Logan City and the public?
🗣️A powerpoint presentation/talk -15 slides
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River protections are in Utah code 73-3-29. It uses 4 criteria to evaluate changes to rivers.
Public interests are in items 1-3:
Following the comment period, Division staff will assemble all comments, conduct any further analysis and evaluate your application by the following criteria:
Will the project unnecessarily or unreasonably affect any recreational use or the natural stream environment?
Will the project unreasonably or unnecessarily endanger aquatic wildlife?
Will the project unreasonably or unnecessarily diminish the natural channel’s ability to conduct high flows?
Will the project impair vested water rights?
If the answer to all of these questions is NO, then your application will be approved.
Current plans of the LRWP appear to violate the first three criteria.
MORE ACTION ITEMS:
Contact representatives of the Cache Water District about the same topics. Their emails are at the link.
(NOTE THAT MINUTES STOPPED BEING POSTED IN JANUARY 2025)
Contact all law-makers, decision-makers, & candidates.
- Logan City council and Mayor own the river and have the MOST SAY:
- North Logan city council and Mayor:
- Hyde Park city Council and Mayor
PLEASE provide a comment in favor of protecting and enhancing our river when the Environmental Impact Statement appears later this year.
There will be a short window of opportunity for comments.
CLICK LINKS to access 8-9 informative reports about projects that impact our community in Cache Valley, Utah
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Rivery reports are (BLUE)
Please advocate for the natural and historic rivers in our community. They should be protected but sponsors have been able/attempting to sidestep protections by claiming that the river is ONLY a canal or a “ditch”.
Little Logan River: An urban jewel, its history, threats and detailed information (this document). Households would pay >>$360-760 per year JUST to be included in the secondary water system. The river is a river and ~8 kinds of data prove it.
Do you want to learn more? See:
The High and Dry plan for the Little Logan River was an attempt to industrialize and take over a public river
Understanding how the Logan River Watershed Project will impact our community, Logan Rivers and the Great Salt Lake using QUESTIONS
Historic photographs and maps documenting the Little Logan River’s long celebrated history in our community
Evidence that the Little Logan River is a natural and legal river-an entire talk .
Frequently asked questions about the Little Logan River.
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Worrisome lack of reassurance–over many years- RAISES KEY QUESTIONS about plans along the Little Logan River.
Key questions for sponsors- that remain unanswered despite almost 9 years of planning:
1. WILL the entire current riverbed:
BE INTACT?
STAY CONNECTED TO LOGAN RIVER forever?
and preserve or enhance most of its trees and natural features?
2. Since the LLR has no guarantee of minimum summer flow levels in published project plans, it could become
completely desiccated in the summer in our 10 public places and along > 5 miles of the river bed owned by the public,
or the river could have a trickle of nearly stagnant water that is likely to be choked by algae in our hotter and hotter summers.
Three water projects rebuilt by JUB firm are currently choked by ALGAE. (Field trip available on request)
Algae has started to grow in the Little Logan River ITSELF in Jens Johansen park during the winter months. This would be avoided if the river’s entire natural flow were no longer diverted out of the river bed. No permit allowed this winter diversion to begin in the 1990s.
3. Prior plans to remove the Crockett structure would have made it challenging to restore the river to full year-round natural waterway.
This “hidden” plan was discovered by us and was in place as late as Oct 2024. That is almost 5 years after the unanimous public asked for the river to be protected with open natural flow. Threats of a lawsuit apparently changed the plan to a better one. (Ask for details)
4. What else is being planned to prevent restoration of WINTER FLOWS? …to degrade the public’s natural river? To deprive the public of its rights to this incredible river?
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How do we know that the Little Logan River is a river, and not only a canal as sponsors usually claim (10 ways)?
Geology proves it is a river. Meandering forms naturally in streams, not in canals.
Hundreds of legal documents all refer to the river as a river. Deeds for land AND water right documents all show ownership along the North Branch of the Logan River, the older name of the river.
Historic maps show the Little Logan River existed before Logan was settled by pioneers. The North Branch of the Logan River was included on the oldest map, whereas the South Branch was omitted in 1856. Canals cannot exist before canal builders arrived in 1859.
The federal government knows the Little Logan River is a perennial river along its entire length and at least two agency databases show it to be a perennial river.
The Utah Division of Wildlife classifies the Little Logan River as a coldwater fishery and perennial stream.
Permits to the State Engineer show that Logan City and the State of Utah both knew the Little Logan River is a river. Check in 2009 and 2012.
Writings of citizens, historians, and officials consistently refer to the Little Logan River as a river.
The entire bed of all rivers, including the entire Little Logan River belongs to Logan City. The land under the river was transferred to the city at statehood by the federal government. Cities are much less likely to own land under canals.
Cache County labels the little Logan River as a natural river in its databases. Update summer 2025.
Rivers are modified by humans on a worldwide basis and modified rivers are not transformed and reclassified as canals. If this logic were used, the main Logan River south of Logan’s Island would be a canal because it was straightened and incised far more than the Little Logan River.
Does it matter that the river is a river? YES!!!!!
Rivers are protected by Utah code 73-29-3. Their recreational aspects, environment, and ecology, aquatic species are protected as long as water rights are not impacted too badly. Federal law also protects rivers.
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