Thank you EVERYONE: RiverFEST, newspaper articles, Access Utah, and letters in support of maintaining a healthy Little Logan River

 Cache Valley rose up in support of our Little Logan River

Thank you

First Annual RiverFEST was a success

Wilson Neighborhood leadership team were helpful.  Thank you.

The Salt Lake Tribune noticed our Little Logan River too.

Photograph of the Little Logan River from the excellent article by local journalist Brock Marchant  and Naomi Cragun.  
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06/18/cache-valleys-little-logan-river/ 

The headline says it all

"A plan to keep northern Utah lawns green could drastically cut flows in a river that feeds the Great Salt Lake

The president of the irrigation company backing the project said people should have a choice in what water they use to keep their lawns going."

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Salt Lake Tribune is now a free newspaper.  If you can afford it, please support their excellent journalism.

Remember: Taxpayers do not have the choice to have our $310 millions of dollars used to install this project.  We have no choice about the annual $2 millions in operating expenses either.

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Musicians, neighbors, activists, and regular folks all came to show our love for the Little Logan River in Merlin Olsen Park 

during our first 

ANNUAL RiverFEST

Elaine Wilcox organized the Little Logan RiverFest.
Thank you also to her many excellent helpers.

Reminder:  The Little Logan River was year round in early 1990s in 300-400 E block.  Wilcox family photo.

Little Logan River will lose 80-100% of its river water if the Logan River Watershed Project is implemented. Logan High students will not be able to soak in the chilly waters after sporting events in the Logan High section (under the word "most").  Adults will not able enjoying flows as high as 85 cfs in Jens Johansen and River Hollow Park section (middle arrow).  More than a mile of the Logan River between the Island and First Dam reservoir will have a lot less water because diversion will move to First Dam from their current legal diversion points at about 300 west and 950 east. 

120 miles of central Cache Valley would be ripped open---like the roads of the Island lately.   

Notice that the red lines for flood prevention represent only 7% of the pipelines being installed.  Purple pipelines will be expensive to purchase and install because they are pressurized. Red pipelines are not pressurized.

The flood prevention represents about 7% of the infrastructure depicted on this summary map yet 55% of the project budget is categorized as flood prevention. 

The public wonders about that large mismatch. 

 

Did you know that charging irrigation-related construction as flood-prevention reduces the local tax burden from 25% to 0%?

Neighbors and friend are enjoying a trickle of water in the Little Logan River.  Tubing was possible in 2024 and earlier but too little water flowed in 2025 and 2026 to allow little kids to keep tubing here. The river is a few inches deep.

Icy feet feel great on a hot day.

Artist Lucy WATKINS gave the Two Rivers Coalition to use this reproduction of her quilt to advocate for the Little Logan River. 

One summary of the Logan River Watershed Project. 

RiverFEST was great fun and educational.  Thank you everyone who came and helped out. 

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Recreation like this in the Little Logan River is invisible in the draft environmental impact statement of the Logan River Watershed project. 

This show the river in River Hollow Park flowing at about 75 cfs, spring 2026.   The photo is from letter to the editor about the LRWP.

The Little Logan River provides the public millions of dollars of free recreation and ecosystem services annually.