One more set of races to file for in the Nov. 2026 elections, Cache Water District

 The filing deadline for candidates in Cache County is June 1-8 for the nonpartisan offices on the Cache Water District.  From the web site, the district mission is:

The purpose of the District includes planning for and facilitating the long-term conservation, development, protection, distribution, management and stabilization of water rights and water supplies for domestic, irrigation, power, manufacturing, municipal, recreation and other beneficial uses, including the natural stream environment, in a cost-effective way to meet the needs of the residents and growing population of Cache County.  

FIVE seats are up for election in 2026- the four shown here - Northeast, Logan 3, Southeast, and South, AND one county-wide at large seat.  IF you, or someone you know, thinks you/the would be a good person to serve on this important council, please file!  The districts up for election, and the current members in these seats, are shown below.

Events Tuesday -Saturday

 

RALLY: Slaying the Stratos Data Center Monster Rally May 30, 1-2:30 Logan, Utah

Join us for music, some rally speeches and action items Saturday, May 30 on the historic courthouse lawn, 1:2:30 pm. The group Wild Dirt will provide music, and a group of young people from Cache Valley have organized a strong group of speakers, groups, and candidates to hear from and talk with. We'll have information on how to comment on the Logan River Watershed Project (see below), the proposed changes to the EPA Clean Air rules to help make data center construction easier, and to file water rights challenges to the Stratos Project.  This event is immediately after the Cache Valley Gardeners Market so you can grab some lunch at the food vendors before the rally. Parking for the rally is in the parking lot at 100 S and 100W, and is the same lot that serves the Gardeners Market. Sign up here to sign up, or email us to get any messages or updates for the event. 

 Bring your signs:  Some inspiration from prior events in Box Elder County:

KNOWLEDGE: Collection of reports about infrastructure projects that impact our community

 PORTAL TO REPORTS AND INFORMATION

Our Rivers and the collapsing Great Salt Lake need your help

YOU can still stop the wildly expensive and destructive Logan River Watershed Project (LRWP).

PLEASE OPPOSE THE LRWP and urge sponsors to lease their unused water right to the Great Salt Lake INSTEAD

 

• How?  Email, snail mail ASAP, or call with YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
• 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
• (435) 459-1621
• ammon.boswell@usda.gov.   

                                     THERE IS A June 22 deadline.

Click on links with highlighting

   Do you want to understand more about damaging water projects in North Utah? 

Pls submit your comment to oppose the destruction of our Little Logan River --at great expense-- before the June 22, 2026 deadline 

Tinyurl.com/RESTORELLR

Learn about plan to DISCONNECT AND nearly dewater the Little Logan River in Logan, Utah

  About other potential impacts? 

Knowledge: Little Logan River is in DANGER of being converted into a canal by LRWP

LOGAN RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT MUST BE STOPPED

Our Rivers and the collapsing Great Salt Lake need your help

YOU can still stop the wildly expensive and destructive Logan River Watershed Project (LRWP).

PLEASE OPPOSE THE LRWP and urge sponsors to lease their unused water right to the Great Salt Lake INSTEAD

 

• How?  Email, snail mail ASAP, or call with YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
• 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
• (435) 459-1621
• ammon.boswell@usda.gov.   

                                     THERE IS A June 22 deadline.

ALERT!!!!!!!

LOGAN RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT  (LRWP)

facilitates the complete take-over of our public river by river-antagonists

LRWP includes an undisclosed PLAN to CAPTURE the Little Logan River

and convert it into a canal.

How?

By "innocently" lowering the crest of the Crockett structure, which just happens to eliminate the winter inflows into the River.  That extreme change is undisclosed in the DEIS.

As little as 10 inches of lowering could disconnect the rivers from one another. 

Crest-lowering PHYSICALLY DISCONNECTs THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LOGAN RIVER and leaves the Little Logan River High and Dry. 

  "High and dry" is one definition of a canal.

Mother nature no longer has control of the Little Logan River if the LRWP proceeds.  

Your voice is VITAL in stopping this massive tax-funded boondoggle and community-damaging plan..

File a comment here:  

• https://bridgerlandaudubon.org/events/logan-river-draft-plan-eis-comments/

A word about our money:

 The funding levels requested by the LRWP are obscene.

 Sponsors request $310 million to install and $2 million annually to operate. 

The operational budget alone exceeds many awards from the federal PL-566 program.

Map of the Island between the two rivers of Logan, Utah. 
These are the North Branch and South Branch.  Both were renamed. 
The changes planned at the east tip of the Island are discussed below.

  We made a physical model to help you visualize what is planned.

Current conditions shown in a simple model. Both rivers deepen to the left, and water flows from right to left.
At the east tip of the Island, in River Hollow park, the Logan River splits into its two branches.  The North Branch is now called the Little Logan River.  Both are true rivers. 

North is at top right.  River water naturally flows into the Little Logan River all year at the branch point upstream of the Crockett structure.

The Little Logan River will be physically disconnected from inflowing river water from other other parts of the Logan River in the winter 

 UNLESS an inflatable dam is in a raised geometry

Who controls that movable dam? 

River-deniers! 

Geometry of the east tip of the Island AFTER the structure is rebuilt with a lower crest/and or dredging occurs in the Logan River above Crockett structure. 

 That combination of processes will position the main Logan River below the intake of the Little Logan River (blue). 

The Little Logan River becomes completely HIGH AND DRY if the Crest of the Crockett structure is lowered by more than ~5-10 inches.  IT becomes dependent on managers who have proven to be devoted "River-deniers" (evidence available on request)

 Only exceedingly high floods will continue to enter the Little Logan River naturally.

The plan to lower the crest of Crockett structure will effectively convert the Little Logan River into a canal.

This massive implication is not mentioned or explained in the DEIS.

The LRWP's ~3000-page document does not disclose this catastrophic implication of the plan!. 

 Undisclosed implications should invalidate the project.

Effectively, the planned conversion of the Little Logan River into a legal canal is "hidden" from everyone.-

Only a few experts with intimate knowledge of the geometry of the rivers noticed this plan. 

DISCUSSION of the plan:

Those plans to capture the LLR are not explained in the DEIS. 

The implication of lower the crest of the Crockett structure is clear to our science and engineering team BECAUSE WE HAVE MONITORED THE RIVER all year round.  

The general public will not understand that their natural river is being captured when the plan merely reports "lower crest elevation" of the Crockett structure.

Was this omission deliberate? 

A prior plan published in late 2024 also failed to reveal the dire consequences of the plan to"remove the Crockett structure".  

Both omissions hid the destructive plan from the public: 

A public's Little Logan River would become a high and dry ditch that is fully reliant on the largess of canal companies for any water flowing in it channel.

Close up of the "High and Dry condition" of the Little Logan River after the LRWP is done destroying Cache Valley's natural river.  This will effectively convert the river owned by the public into a canal.   Canals can be modified pretty much at will.

Do you want the natural river flowing through Merlin Olsen Park-River Hollow Park-Jen Johansen Park, Logan high, Kilowatt park, Fairgrounds, willow park, zoo, Garth wayside park, Pioneer park?  Do you want the river to be controlled even more by canal companies? 

If not, please comment on the DEIS.

find out more and how to comment here

Under the guise of protecting 28 homes from a possible flood, sponsors plan to dredge the Logan River upstream of the Crockett structure AND to lower the crest of the structure.  Both actions could convert the river into a canal.

Lowering the crest elevation on the Crockett structure as little as 10 inches will destroy our natural river.  

As little as 10 inches of dredging could eliminate the Little Logan River's natural connection to river water, preventing river water and natural biota like fish from entering the river .

Field work by our Two River coalition members shows that the Little Logan River's natural inflow of water in the winter is low, due to construction after flood damage in the 1980s.  Winter inflows are often as low as 10 inches deep. 

Now the sponsors of the LRWP are designing structures to remove that 10 inches of winter inflow. IF this project proceeds, Mother Nature will lose control over the inflow and canal companies will do whatever they wish with our amazing Little Logan River.

The DEIS reports the intention to "lower the crest elevation" of Crockett structure in at least 5-10 places.

RESTORE LLR 2: miscellaneous information about River-destroying plan. OPPOSE IT NOW!

 ALERT and update!!!!

Our Rivers needs your help

YOU can still stop the wildly expensive and destructive Logan River Watershed Project (LRWP).

PLEASE OPPOSE THE LRWP and urge sponsors to lease their unused water right to the Great Salt Lake INSTEAD

• How?  Email, snail mail ASAP, or call with YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
• 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
• (435) 459-1621
• ammon.boswell@usda.gov.   

                                     THERE IS A June 22 deadline.

Help stop the 

“DROUGHT-DEFYING”, “Obscenely expensive” and 

“RIVER-DENYING”

Logan River Watershed Project

Oppose spending your federal, state and local tax dollars on misguided MEGA-irrigation PROJECT
 called the Logan River Watershed Project

A word about our money:

 The funding levels requested by the LRWP are obscene.

 Sponsors request $310 million to install and $2 million annually to operate. 

The operational budget alone exceeds many awards from the federal PL-566 program.

Proposed changes to EPA rules would allow Data Centers to be built before they get Air Quality permits

 Today, Friday May 22, at his "Operation Gigawatt" data center summit held in Park City, Gov. Cox promised that developers "don't get to skip any steps" on air permits, while standing next to the EPA administrator whose agency proposed, eleven days ago, to let them break ground before air permits are even filed.

There is a virtual public hearing on this rule change this Thursday, May 28. You have until THIS MONDAY, May 25, to register. You do not need technical expertise. You get four minutes to tell. EPA this is wrong. Register here: https://www.zoomgov.com/.../reg.../a1Ys2g_7RhO- emtcsT6p7w...

Once a data center campus is built, the pressure to just issue the permit becomes nearly impossible to resist. That's the whole point.

Knowledge: We can't afford to encourage MORE irrigation during a 26-year-long mega-drought.

PLEASE HELP SAVE OUR LITTLE LOGAN RIVER's green spaces and recreation 

Our Rivers and the collapsing Great Salt Lake need your help

YOU can still stop the wildly expensive and destructive Logan River Watershed Project (LRWP).

PLEASE OPPOSE THE LRWP and urge sponsors to lease their unused water right to the Great Salt Lake instead

 

• How?  Email, snail mail ASAP, or call with YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
• 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
• (435) 459-1621
• ammon.boswell@usda.gov.   

                                     THERE IS A June 22 deadline.

ammon.boswell@usda.gov

EVERY residence in Logan, North Logan and Hyde Park will be required to pay a monthly fee-regardless of whether irrigation
services their property. 
$ 84/ year.

LOGAN RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT AIMS to spend our tax money 

($309 million to install, 2 million a year to manage, plus over 50 years!!!!) 

to secure THEIR water right 

by adding new urban users of 

Logan River's water.  

In essence, this project asks all of us to pay for a benefit that only a small portion of the community gets.  

About 30% may opt in but what portion of the community will want to do so?

We found zero surveys of demand for pressurized irrigation water among potential users.

We found zero surveys of public views on the prospect of zero water in our rivers and parks in the future. 

We found zero surveys of voter willingness to be charged for this project's catastrophic impacts.

This is during a time when 97% 0f Utah's population is living in moderate to extreme drought.  The Great Salt Lake needs every drop of unused river water to stop collapsing.

We recommend LEASING the unused water right to the GSL until it is needed in our community.

FAQ questions about the project show this goal clearly.

Selected text:

Water rights can be protected by leasing them to the Great Salt Lake.

This project is wildly and obscenely expensive.   Find out more here.

Knowledge: HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THE LITTLE LOGAN RIVER IS A Protected RIVER, AND NOT A CANAL AS SPONSORS OF Logan River Watershed Project USUALLY CLAIM?

 ALERT

PLEASE submit comments opposing the. Logan River Watershed PROJECT:  It is Drought-DEFYING, river-DENYING and obscenely expensive.  Email  Logan River Watershed Project to oppose it. 

Tinyurl.com/RESTORELLR 

HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THE LITTLE LOGAN RIVER IS A Protected RIVER, AND NOT A CANAL AS SPONSORS OF Logan River Watershed Project USUALLY CLAIM?

Return to this blog post: Tinyurl.com/LLRISARIVERBLG

The public's rights to a healthy, year-round Little Logan River are being violated

-Rivers are protected by Utah law yet the public's rights to a healthy, year-round Little Logan River are being violated by the owner of the river, Logan City and by Canal companies.   

-Implementing the Logan River Watershed Project would worsen this situation significantly, unless it is modified to honor the public's rights in Utah law 73-3-29.

A Win-Win is possible if water rights holder would permit ~ 20% (~10-15 cfs, which is enough water for most kids to go tubing in the river) of their recent unneeded/unused water right to flow naturally along the Little Logan River instead!

SECTIONS below:

1. Experts ARE amazed that there is a debate about the Little Logan River's status-it is river. Quick summary of evidence for the river status of the Little Logan River. Evidence was culled down to the main points.

2. Explanation why a river is protected, and the public’s rights to recreation, environment and aquatic species must be protected. This right has been violated for decades during winter dessication.

3. Detailed expanded evidence and analysis showing that the Little Logan River in indisputably a natural river and has not lost that status. There are > 30 types of evidence and arguments. You may wish to consult additional legal and historic documents for supporting facts (more information too).

4. RETURN HERE. Please SHARE widely using the Qr code and Tinyurl.com/LLRISARIVERBLG.

CURRENT ACTION ITEM:

PLS CONTACT DECISION MAKERS

Knowledge: GRIFT WATCH: Stratos data center, Box Elder county

MORE insights into corruption and self-dealing by GOP lawmakers in Utah 

SHARE the information widely please.

Government told Utahns down wind of nuclear tests that "this project is safe and vital for national security".

We won't fall for that again.

The ACTION ITEMS:  

    VOTE THEM OUT ASAP (Adams, Schultz, Cox...)

        Publicize their greed and grift

            Dig up more dirt.

 

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Elevate Utah rocks!

The viral post by Utah women using humor and power.  

View this post on Instagram

Investigations by Elevate Utah leadership reveal that Utah at least two lawmakers were positioning themselves to be enriched at our expense, in secret as long ago as January 2025!!!!!! 

House Speaker Mike Schultz just "happened" to buy many square miles of land near the future data center 16 months before the public heard a PEEP!!!!!!!!!!! (640 acres make a square mile).

  VOTE HIM OUT.

ALERT: KNOWLEDGE: Adams and Cox were pushing AI 5 months ago

 LOOK HOW LONG STRATOS PLANNING WAS SECRET!

Stratos data center and gas-guzzling power plant Project has provided almost no technical information, no proof of a military benefit, no tenants, aspirational goals but no proof of benefits.

Rushing a destructive power plant and data center is a recipe for disaster

 

A high level meeting in Brigham City seemed to spill the plans in mid November, 2025.

Nov 17, 2025

Brigham City Mayor DJ Bott and Gov. Spencer Cox have announced a nuclear power plant to be built in Brigham City. Subscribe to ABC4 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/abc4utah...

Transcript:

0:58

58 seconds

We're at a crossroads in a new global environment where both AI and energy are and will continue to be weaponized.

Stuart Adams said: 1:09

1 minute, 9 seconds

The country that controls AI will control the world both economically because people are going to demand high-tech products and militarily

1:18

1 minute, 18 seconds

because we know all the weapon systems in the future will be driven by AI. They say boosting power production will help the country beat Russia and China in

1:26

1 minute, 26 seconds

that race and it will also improve the lives of those who live here.

Cox spoke after .24

1:091 minute, 9 secondsThe country that controls AI will control the world both economically because people are going to demand high-tech products and militarily 1:181 minute, 18 secondsbecause we know all the weapon systems in the future will be driven by AI. They say boosting power production will help the country beat Russia and China in 1:261 minute, 26 secondsthat race and it will also improve the lives of those who live here.