Knowledge: RECORDING Oppose spending our tax dollars on misguided MEGA_irrigation PROJECT Recording and audio of Public meeting

 Oppose spending our tax dollars on misguided MEGA-irrigation PROJECT

 called the Logan River Watershed PROJECT

This blog page will mostly house the public's recording of the brief, incomplete, and misleading information presented by Sponsors of the Logan River Watershed project.  

Commentary and corrections by members of the public and Two River's coalition's science lead are in RED, brackets, italics, or bolded.

Project Description

The Project proposes the following improvements to address agricultural water management, flood prevention, and public recreation: 

• Reconstruct the Crockett Diversion [Few details are include in the 2803 long document about this aspect of the project.  there is a grave concerns that hidden in the plan is the an engineering design that will sever the Little Logan River from its source forever converting our Little Logan river into a high and dry ditch that depends on the "largess" of canal companies for flow of any water.   that water may be fish-free piped water delivered from a "faucet".  See p. E0
• Install irrigation connection to First Dam
• Construct downstream water storage with pump stations 
• Install new pressurized irrigation systems [This is the most expansive, expensive, and most disruptive part of the plan. The public was not informed about the costs of this system to EVERYONE in the three cities, NOR the costs to users, NOR the one-time expense of converting to a pressurized irrigation system. Shareholders who use flood irrigation will need to install a very expensive new irrigation system on their residential property.  We estimate that a modest lot will be required to spend $5-10,000 in order to use the pressurized water.  Sponsors instead showed a schematic sketch that assumes the price of culinary water will exceed the cost of secondary water in the future.  One opponent of the project was insulted by this sketch.]
• Improve existing canals 
• [How?  The public has no clarity about the plans for the open canals on or near their properties. Which canals will become dry open ditches and which will become buried pipes?  N.D promised that this would be explained at the public meeting. Instead, an unreadable map was provided.]
• Construct recreational trails 

[Recreation will mostly be destroyed by the damage to the Little Logan River in ~13 public green spaces.  Added trail construction is a trivial fraction of the project and both short trails are highly problematic/not wanted in their current form.]

Video Recording of the Public meeting. 

After watching this and reviewing other blog pages, their draft EIS documents, DO you agree:  This was a vague sketch of the actual plan. there was little information about the ACTUAL cost for each kind of users, resident, and farmer.  

In addition, many critical aspects of the plan were glossed over. 

Plans to Sever the Little Logan River from its source was not acknowledged. 

That plan should be illegal yet the Cache Water district and sponsors are so convinced that the Little Logan River is a canal that they approved this plan to damage our public creation, community, green spaces, and pocket-books.