KNOWLEDGE: RIVER projects in Logan Utah, and its impact on Cache Valley

 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

Summary comments about the LOGAN RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT.  

This public works project has laudable goals to update outdated irrigation infrastructure of several canals that divert water north from the Little Logan River. 

Published plans for this project  also UNNECESSARILY and very negatively dewater and mismanage the magnificent Little Logan River in our midst, in violation of Utah river law 73-3-29 

Logan, Utah, the Island, the Great Salt Lake, and east Cache Valley area between Hyde Park and the Logan River will all SUFFER from a project. It plans to divert almost all the Little Logan River's water upstream of legal diversion points into pressurized pipes. It also seeks new users that use EXTRA river water to water their lawns, while our beautiful river and the Great Salt Lake dry up.

The Logan River Watershed Project 

must do more to:

+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 collapse

of 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

There is overwhelming evidence that the Little Logan River is a natural river along its entire length.

See the FAQ in this post to see a summary of the evidence that experts use to prove that the river is a river along its entire length.

Sponsors have erroneously claimed that most of the Little Logan River is a canal. This claim is critical for sponsors to perpetrate the alarming litany of degradation planned, with limited transparency, to our incredible river. (Many updates since October 2024 have not been shared with the public)

 All rivers have additional protections that canals do not have (Utah code 73-3-29).  That law requires that there must be a balance of water rights and the public's rights to recreation, a healthy environment and aquatic species.  

The public rights to a healthy natural river would be well-served if adults were able to tube in the river without going aground (~15 cfs flowing) and winter desiccation ends so that fish can reestablish.  

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By Dr. Susanne Janecke

Updated July 2025

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