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.